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The sun reaches its highest point at a time sufficiently far from 12:00. That's answering by reformulating the question. Now I would ask why is having the noon
by narag 8y ago
The sun reaches its highest point at a time sufficiently far from 12:00.
That's answering by reformulating the question. Now I would ask why is having the noon "sufficiently far" from 12:00 wrong.
What would happen is that times would lose all intrinsic meaning.
You did it again.
When you schedule an international call, people can say "that's 5 o'clock in the morning for us". If the whole word were to use UTC, you would loose that, and we would have to invent a new way to say that. You know – some kind of "localized time" :).
Is scheduling internation calls really the biggest problem that would arise? Good.
Anyway, you would say: "we are available from 22:00 to 4:00" and that is all. The way to say what time of the day is already exists: morning, afternoon...
- chronial 8y ago>>> What's "wrong" supposed to mean in this context? >> The sun reaches its highest point at a time sufficiently far from 12:00. > That's answering by reformulating the question. Now I would ask why is having the noon "sufficiently far" from 12:00 wrong. No, that's you moving the goalpost. I answered your question. >>> nothing would happen. >> What would happen is that times would lose all intrinsic meaning. > You did it again. I did what again? I explained how "nothing" is not what would happen. > Is scheduling internation calls really the biggest problem that would arise? Good. This might seem lazy, but I discovered in another answer here that somebody made this point already way better than I ever could: https://qntm.org/abolish https://qntm.org/abolish. Anything that is difficult right now due to time zones will stay difficult. It is difficult because of humans and their desire for daylight. You always need two time systems: One that represents local usage of time and one mostly for machines. We already have that.