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Everyone has a smartphone these days. There should be fifty time zones in the US, and your smartphones should adjust the time by a few minutes every night so t
by new_realist 7y ago
Everyone has a smartphone these days. There should be fifty time zones in the US, and your smartphones should adjust the time by a few minutes every night so that sunrise is always at 7 am, which mimics what would occur naturally. When you want to know the time elsewhere, you ask Siri. That should make humans much healthier by keeping circadian rhythms naturally aligned, not under continuous stress from artificial UTC, or even DST.
- jobigoud 7y agoThis is the system we had before. Each city had its own timezone. It was changed so trains schedules make sense.
- CameronNemo 7y agoThis is why I wrote a "digital sundial" that calculates: * the current quadrant (early morning, morning, afternoon, evening) * the progress through the quadrant as a two digit hexadecimal number I later stumbled across XKCD 2050, "6/6 Time". https://xkcd.com/2050/ https://xkcd.com/2050/ https://gitlab.com/cameronnemo/sundial https://gitlab.com/cameronnemo/sundial
- jachee 7y agoOnly 50? The country spans almost 110° longitude, from West Quoddy Head lighthouse in Maine (66 degrees 57 minutes west.) to Cape Wrangell on Attu Island, Alaska (172 degrees 27 minutes east.) That's nearly 1/3 of the globe. So why not ~450 down-to-the-minute timezones? Or, why not subdivide those into 28,000 down-to-the second timezones? How would we ever ensure that all those times were universally coordinated? Bonus question: What timezone is the moon?