User:Robert Thorpe/World Alphabetical Time

Wouldn't it be convenient to have a world standard time which we could use when communicating across different time zones, without the need for all that tedious arithmetic (assuming you can remember whether to add or subtract)? With World Alphabetical Time, it would always be the same time everywhere in the world. Television news channels could adopt it, so we would soon get used to it.

There being 24 letters in the alphabet which do not resemble numbers - I and O would not be used - and 24 hours in the day, everyone could learn to apply WAT to their local time. It would end the need for tedious lists of cities with different times.

Since Universal Time (alias UTC or GMT) is used as a sort of default when comparing with other time zones, WAT could be pegged to it, so that A:00 would be 0000 UTC. Thus my current time, Portuguese (also British, Irish) Summer Time 18:49 (17:49 UTC, 12:49 CDT) is T:49 WAT, wherever I am and wherever you are.

A small way to improve the world, but a real improvement. Robert Thorpe 12:49, 13 October 2007 (CDT)

What's the time in WAT?

0000 GMT = A:00 WAT

0100 GMT = B:00 WAT

0200 GMT = C:00 WAT

0300 GMT = D:00 WAT

0400 GMT = E:00 WAT

0500 GMT = F:00 WAT

0600 GMT = G:00 WAT

0700 GMT = H:00 WAT

0800 GMT = J:00 WAT

0900 GMT = K:00 WAT

1000 GMT = L:00 WAT

1100 GMT = M:00 WAT

1200 GMT = N:00 WAT

1300 GMT = P:00 WAT

1400 GMT = Q:00 WAT

1500 GMT = R:00 WAT

1600 GMT = S:00 WAT

1700 GMT = T:00 WAT = 1200 CDT

1800 GMT = U:00 WAT = 1200 CDT

1900 GMT = V:00 WAT = 1200 CDT

2000 GMT = W:00 WAT = 1200 CDT

2100 GMT = X:00 WAT = 1200 CDT

2200 GMT = Y:00 WAT = 1200 CDT

2300 GMT = Z:00 WAT = 1200 CDT