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How are those times not arbitrary? Midday is not the middle of the day if you don't wake up at 4 o clock, 14:00 or 14:30 is about the middle of the day. We cou
by kmm 8y ago
How are those times not arbitrary? Midday is not the middle of the day if you don't wake up at 4 o clock, 14:00 or 14:30 is about the middle of the day.
We could shift the hours for work and life, such that it'd be normal to wake up at 4:30, to have lunch at 10, the sun to reach its peak at 12, the middle of the day etc... But that would be a global, massive effort, requiring a rewrite of conventions that go back centuries. Or we could change the clock instead, making the connection between the number on the clock and the sun a little more arbitrary and giving us a few more hours sunlight at convenient times