– If UTC is meant to be a universal time, then why are there different “versions”? (utc-5, utc-11)

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Wouldn’t it just make sense to define a given hour as UTC 00:00 and then reference that ONE time when communicating? As it stands, were just giving every single time zone two or three different names for seemingly no merit

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Time zones exist and pretending they don’t wouldn’t be useful to anyone. Having a universal reference point is handy for communicating what time gaps are. To work out the time gap between two places, you just need to know the UTC offset for each of them.

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