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How North America can increase its productivity and its security by revising its time zonesReduce the number of time zones from six to fiveIt's time to change our clocks but not simply in the usual fashion of "spring forward" and "fall back" to accommodate Daylight Saving Time (DST). We need to redefine the way that North Americans observe time relative to Universal Coordinated Time (UTC). Our time zones are relics of a bygone era that predates electrical lighting, high-speed Internet connections, trans-continental air travel, the global economy and large-scale terrorist threats to national security. The time has come for North America to modernize the way we keep time across the Continent by reducing the number of time zones by one. An extensive range of benefits would accrue from the elimination of only one time zone. It is important to bolster North America's trade and commerce by coordinating time changes among the NAFTA nations in order to harmonize and optimize our financial, industrial, transportation, and communication links. This could well be the most cost-effective decision taken by governments since the adoption of Standard Time. Certainly, when compared to the modest payback from the disruption caused twice annually by DST, consolidating our time zones will produce very significant economic, but of course, as yet unmeasured benefits. The elegance of this proposal is that all these gains can be reaped from a modest change of only 30 minutes-less of a change than what we experience annually under the current practice of moving clocks an entire hour to accommodate DST. We simply need to move our clocks ahead one half hour in the west and back one half hour in the rest of the country. I invite you to study the material offered on this site and offer your opinion on the chat page. I welcome discussion and constructive criticism.
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