Do we need different time zones for different states?

madhu agrawal | September 27, 2012



Do we need different time zones for states?It refers to the panel formed by union government (ministry of energy) for suggesting change in time-zone for the country. A country like India with so much illiteracy and lack of awareness is not fit to bear effects of differing time-zones for different states. However, India should enter time-zone of GMT+6 hours instead of present GMT+5.30 hours for better utilisation of solar energy. System will also be in tune with most nations already favouring their time zones separated by GMT by complete hours rather than fraction of an hour like being presently followed by India by keeping itself in time zone GMT+5.30 hours. Rather conventionally all the nations should have their time zones separated by GMT in complete hours only.

A story on Time zone ‘The line that divides India’ was published in Governance Now.

Also, when all other measures are converted in metric-system from earlier haphazard systems, metric-measure of time has not yet been introduced. Metric unit of time should be introduced with a complete day divided in 10 metric hours instead of present 24 hours. Each metric hour may have 100 metric minutes with a metric minute having 100 metric seconds thereby making a complete day of 100000 metric seconds instead of present 86400 seconds.

 
 

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