to catch up with it in the warmer months, while remaining an hour ahead at other times? As fascinating as this debate is — and there is no more controversial subject in some parts than daylight savings time — it opens the way to consideration of a much larger issue, which is the need to get rid of time zones altogether. So universal is this assumption that we accept the current profusion of time zones as natural and inevitable. Canada, for example, is divided into five time zones, an hour apart — plus another in Newfoundland, 30 minutes ahead. Nepal is 15 minutes ahead of India, which is half an hour ahead of Pakistan.

Source: National Post September 21, 2017 01:52 UTC