Time zones and why they change so damned often (was: the Gravity of Python 2)

[Roy Smith]

In article <bjas3gFg58aU1 at mid.individual.net>,
 Peter Pearson <ppearson at nowhere.invalid> wrote:

> Around 30 years ago, the Wall Street Journal ran an opinion piece
> advocating the abandonment of time zones and the unification of the
> globe into a single glorious time zone.  After enumerating the 
> efficiencies to be achieved by this system, the writer briefly
> addressed the question of whose time zone would become the global
> standard, promptly arriving at the conclusion that, due to the
> concentration of important commerce, the logical choice was the
> east coast of the United States.

30 years ago, that would have been a plausible choice.  Today, not so 
much.