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.

  • rmuk@feddit.ukEnglish
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    1 day ago

    Every military in the world uses UTC so I’m gonna say that.

    Otherwise, I’d go for UTC-1 because… well, look at it. There’s no way they could lose because there’s nothing there to lose. Nuke away, boyos, it’s all ocean.

    • sbird@sopuli.xyzOPEnglish
      1·
      1 day ago

      Don’t underestimate the might of Cape/Capo Verde and the Canary Islands!

  • Geobloke@aussie.zone
    791·
    3 days ago

    Definitely +8, they have like a third of the world’s population.

    The first to lose world be +8.25 they’re at the bottom of Western Australia. There’s roughly 12 people there unless Bruce is passing through. A fuck ton of emu war veterans though. From the side that won

    • zlatiah@lemmy.world
      10·
      3 days ago

      Not to mention that the entirety of China, a singular political and military entity (a fairly strong one nonetheless), is somehow all +8 due to a technicality

      Now all of China knows you’re here!

    • pyre@lemmy.world
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      2 days ago

      they could but wouldn’t. not for moral reasons but because if you end all life companies that own you wouldn’t make any money.

  • niktemadur@lemmy.world
    161·
    3 days ago

    China’s cheating, it’s all crammed forcefully into one timezone, Beijing’s!
    In far western China in winter, it could be noon and the sun is barely rising over the horizon. Then in summer the sunset might be at around 1am.

  • RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world
    301·
    3 days ago

    Probably China. It’s one nation, full of industry and under a single leadership. They could produce whatever they needed. China is one time zone.

    Next competitor is the slice encompassing a large number of countries in Africa as well as most of western Europe. Huge number of people and industries contained in that slice, but they lack common leadership.

  • menas@lemmy.wtf
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    2 days ago

    I think it’s depend of which kind of war. If it’s obvious for everyone that “they is no way we can agree” from the beginning, so it’s a nuclear preemptive strike from the first timezone aware of the rules. So Europe, China, India and Pakistan are close competitors. US have and Canada shall destroy itself, their nuclear capacities are spread across several “timezone interests”. Funny enough, what may make the difference between Europe, China, India and Pakistan may be the hour when the situation declare itself. If the ruling class is asleep, officer may need to wait to wake them up, as it was during the 1983 false nuclear alarm

    If it’s not obvious that their is no way to make agreement, we may see an escalation of conflict, starting with soft and hard power. This scenario may be very close of the current relationships, and the winner may be the main imperialists power : Europe or the US In this scenario, it seems obvious that the US adopt one timezone, and make it adopt for every countries in the North and South America. It’s next move would be to sabotage other negotiations. I didn’t exclude Europe from the competitions, because the neo-colonial relationships may help the expand their timezone in their former colonies. What may make the differences is the attitude of UK and Russa. Depending if they adopt the European timezone or not.

    I don’t think the number of people involve in one timezone make a change; this is short term scenarios, and economic and diplomatic power seems unrelated with the population size

  • brisk@aussie.zone
    3·
    2 days ago

    +9 appears to be currently shivving +10, so my money is with them

    I may have misunderstood the assignment