After thinking about it for about five minutes I've arrived at the conclusion that time is a load of horse pucky

I am refering to time zones, mostly. We act like the time of day is a very concrete thing: "On June 11th, 1994, at 11:23 pm..." but it's not. It's not even a measurement of where the sun is in the sky; it's a measurement of where the sun LOOKS like it is according to the person who's telling the time.

So my question is: Since the system is completely relative anyway, why don't we all use one time zone? This way, it'll be 2 PM in London at the same time it's 2 PM in New York--and "2 PM" will actually mean something. It will refer to the rotational angle of the earth. When the sun's directly over Greenwich, England, it'll be Noon. When the sun's over Nevada, it'll be 8 PM.

Now this probably seems like bullshit to you; it's completely unnatural, you think, for China to have to deal with the sun directly overhead and call it "midnight". But consider the southern hemisphere. Their seasons are reversed, right? "December" in Australia is one of the hotter months of the year! Does that mean they get to call it "July" just because of their relative weather conditions? No! They call it december and they celebrate Christmas and the poor mall santas don't even put on Hawaiian shirts, they wear their red jackets and talk about the north pole while theyre in goddamn Australia roasting their butts off

So why don't they go ahead and switch their time of day around, too? (Sydney is pretty much opposite Greenwich, England on the globe, so it really would be a complete reversal. Which, when you get right down to it, is actually how you would want it.)