Yep I appreciated the “geek” that hacked that up. I hope there was some humour behind it. The “normal” thing would be to get a wall clock and wind it back 15!
The idea is not to abolish time zones, the idea is to add UTC to the clock so we have local times (time zones) and a global time (UTC) in one clock. With added features like "Meeting Time", we can defiantly find the best time to call and making sure it's not 4am in the other place.
Thanks, orbital time isn't final yet. Those are the initial thoughts to solve it. The approach of using the Sun's location might work.
Yes, many corner cases, but somebody has got to solve them, this is the start.