2008-03-18|Sci-fi guru Sir Arthur C. Clarke dies at 90
To the editor
The Standard Time devised by Sir Sandford Fleming in 1884 has served well since the age of the Railways. However, it is high time that the confusing patchwork of Local Time Zones and Daylight Savings Times be supplanted by a single Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) in the age of the Global Village.
In "3001: The Final Odyssey" published in 1997, Sir Arthur C. Clarke shows his foresight and wisdom in the following excerpts on Page 25.
One minor surprise had been that the whole world was now on Universal Time: the confusing patchwork of Time Zones had been swept away by the advent of global communications.
