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Why not have 2 time systems. One Earth Standard Time system for scheduling with different parts of the world and one system that is centered on solar noon at on
by strait 7y ago
Why not have 2 time systems. One Earth Standard Time system for scheduling with different parts of the world and one system that is centered on solar noon at one's longitude and is updated daily at solar midnight, for daily awareness and routine activities. This system would count up from -12:00 at solar midnight, reach 0 time at solar noon and proceed to count up from there towards the reset time around 12:00.
- berbec 7y agoHow would that work north of the arctic circle? Would it be 300 a week after the sun came up?
- strait 7y agoThere would still be a solar noon (sun at zenith) unless one was directly at the pole. Admitted, it would be more difficult to visually tell, the closer one got to the pole.
- perilunar 7y ago> One Earth Standard Time system for scheduling with different parts of the world That's pretty much what UTC does. The aviation industry does everything in UTC for example, and you convert to local time as required. > one system that is centered on solar noon at one's longitude and is updated daily at solar midnight We have that already, it's called (local) Mean Solar Time.