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26 Hour Alphabetic Time could be used instead of 24 Hour Time by all sorts of entities, like governments, broadcasters, internet sites, railroads, and other time-zone spanning organizations, in order to increase productivity and practically make more time in the day.  Not only would it be very clear to everyone all over the world if someone gave a speech at SZZ:T, or an on-line meeting lasted from TAD:C to :E, it would seemingly create two extra hours in the day, room on the schedule for two more activities, room in the economy for two more hours of hourly jobs.  If broadcast stations used it for their schedules, they could have two extra hours to program two more shows (and they'd all be slightly shorter).  Magnum PI could be on at :D, and the news at :R.  Local broadcast stations in different parts of the world would have their nightly news at different WTF times, as would local store and business hours, stores on the east coast might open from :C to :P, or :B to :O during the summer.

What's neat is it could free up localities to go back to Sun time, so that Noon is really when the Sun is directly overhead, and the railroad schedules could be completely independent of local time.  WTF time would only be used for non-local things.

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by: John Howard @ Sat Jan 30, 2010 at 19:15:37 PM CST