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>>> 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 reformu
by 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.