Authors
Steve Hanke
Outlet
Fortune Magazine
Type
Op-ed
Date published
July 18, 2026
Countries/regions
United States of America
Topic
Time Policy
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It's time to dump time zones
Author: Steve H. Hanke
Outlet: Fortune
Date: July 18, 2026
Hanke argues it's time to scrap the world's current patchwork system of time zones in favor of adopting Coordinated Universal Time (UTC), also known as Greenwich Mean Time, so that everyone's clocks read the same time everywhere. He notes this builds on his long-standing "Hanke-Henry" proposal, developed with Johns Hopkins physicist Richard "Dick" Henry, contending that a single global time would eliminate the confusion, scheduling friction, and daylight-saving disruptions created by today's fragmented time-zone system in an increasingly interconnected world.
Full Citation:
"It's time to dump time zones," Fortune, July 18, 2026.