Which timezone would win in a conflict?

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Let’s say people can’t agree on the time to go to bed, and each timezone declared war on every other timezone. Who would win in this conflict? What alliances would form, and will there be betrayal? What would the new world order look like with a standard time for everyone?

GMT+8 looks good with the entire population of China on its side. GMT+1 and +2 have large chunks of Europe and Africa and could be quite strong too. The timezones in the east and west coast of the U.S. might also stand a good chance.

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peoplebeproblems@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago
UTC obviously.

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rumschlumpel@feddit.org ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Nah, Europe ain’t shit. I bet the US east coast timezone could beat all of GMT+1 alone even without using nukes.

Nukes kind of create a conundrum, though, because they’re pretty much the reason why the big powers stopped direct warfare between each other. If China, Europe and the US had an outright war, those nukes would probably start dropping, and then everybody loses, but also, it’s kind of difficult to truly know how good a country is at nuclear warfare. GMT+1 is certainly going to lose this, though, each of the 4 US timezone could probably nuke it into oblivion, especially since e.g. Germany already has US army bases that are equipped with nuked on its own ground. But how many nukes China actually has and how good the US’s missile interception systems are? Who knows, maybe they’re just that much better. Though even if the US were theoretically stronger, they’re divided into 4 timezones, and it’s not a given that they’ll automatically ally with each other, which again gives China a huge advantage.

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- macros@feddit.org ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  Hey, not country war, timezone war! Those bases? They belong to team GMT+1 now!
  
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  - rumschlumpel@feddit.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    I suppose that would help, but I’d assume that most nukes are still in the continental US.
    
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tetris11@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
US and Russia would tear themselves apart internally. That leaves China with the largest functioning army, vs the EU if they can mobilize fast enough

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wieson@feddit.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
+8 or +1 (don’t forget Nigeria)

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TranquilTurbulence@lemmy.zip ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
It would result in the total collapse of the entire time zone system. Every location would switch to local solar time and the war would be over.

When those areas need to communicate with each other, they would develop a new global time system that simply counts seconds from a particular moment in time. Sort of like unix time, but with the epoch set to the moment the new system was launched.

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- Pumafred9@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  Develop a new time global system? We Brits can’t even agree on what to call a bread roll!
  
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  - OccamsTeapot@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago
    It’s breadcake. Problem solved. No further discussion necessary
    
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  - TranquilTurbulence@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    The rest of the world can use the new standard, and ignore the Brits. They can keep their Brexit while the rest of the world can move on. Everybody wins!
    
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yakko@feddit.uk ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Any war with this many aggressors who were all opposed each other absolutely would just look like everyone killing each other at random. Even without nukes, it would be madness on a scale never before seen, resulting in a quieter, nay sleepier world.

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BlueEther@no.lastname.nz ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
+12 would just ignore you all

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- piwakawakas@lemmy.nz ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago
  MapswithNZ? Wtf?
  
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- Munkisquisher@lemmy.nz ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  Yeah we would, stay away
  
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Apepollo11@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
GMT

We’ve done it before and we’ll do it again.

/s obv

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bryndos@fedia.io ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Every TZ has a similar amount of tactical nuclear penguins.
The only way to win is not to play.

=> the moon.

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Little8Lost@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
How it would work later you can see in china because the point they took for their time zone is an end.
People would simply say something like: which retards came to the idea that 4:20 should in the middle of the suntime??

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