User:Robert Thorpe/World Alphabetical Time

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

There being 24 letters which do not resemble 1 and 0, could adopt a standard world time which everyone could learn to apply to their location. It would end the need for tedious lists of cities with different times.

So, it's now BST (& Portuguese Summer Time) 17:29. If midnight here is A:00, then it would now be T:29 WAT. Rothorpe 16:29, 5 October 2007 (UTC)

But since UTC (which is virtually synonymous with GMT) is used as a sort of default when comparing with other time zones, WAT could be linked to it, so that A:00 would be 0000 UTC. Thus the current time, 18:12 Portuguese/British Summer Time, 17:12 UTC/GMT, is U:12. Rothorpe 17:12, 13 October 2007 (UTC)