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.
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.
Don’t underestimate the might of Cape/Capo Verde and the Canary Islands!
Whatever the China Time zone is obviously.
China.
Either +1 or +8
That said all 4 in America could end life on earth
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.
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.
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.I never noticed that China only has one time zone. Must be terrible for the people on the west end
Banking and government office hours!
Oh and +1 isn’t. Look at it, they put Spain in Berlin’s time zone to appease an angry loser 90 years ago and just left it there
China.
Not even a question.
They have 1 time zone.
Kiribati wins!
They can just go back in time, DUH!
I think there’s going to be a multi-way tie as the nukes get launched…
Wow is that map ever a trainwreck
But -5 stronk like bull
Any war with this many aggressors who were all opposed to 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.
The one with Hawaii could just pretend they’ve already been wiped out and wait for everyone else to destroy each other
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
GMT-11 wins because nobody remembers to nuke them.
+8 or +1 (don’t forget Nigeria)
