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I like the solar hijri calendar (not to be confused with the lunar hijri). Better than anno domini would be a anno mundi system, but to make a new scientific an
by zzo38computer 6y ago
I like the solar hijri calendar (not to be confused with the lunar hijri). Better than anno domini would be a anno mundi system, but to make a new scientific anno mundi system rather than the old way, due directly to the Earth going around the Sun, because that is how the year is considered, so to count years starting from that, too. For time keeping, use local time based on mean solar time, with no daylight saving time (I hate daylight saving time), with 12:00 being mean solar noon. Perhaps make half hour time zones. Continue using UTC with a "Z" suffix when you need to use the time that isn't local time (and if you do need to explicitly note local time, you can use a "J" suffix, or use the + and - and number of hours if you need to specify the timezone explicitly too). My idea for dealing with leap seconds in Unix time is to allow the number of nanoseconds to exceed one billion during a leap second; at all other times, the number of nanoseconds is less than one billion. Don't be over-civilization.
My ideas do perhaps have some (maybe most, or even all) of the problems mentioned in that document, but nevertheless, this is my ideas.
- patrickthebold 6y agoI'm a big proponent of continuous time zones, so that noon drifts ever so slightly as position changes. Seems like a no-brainer to me.
- cecilpl2 6y agoDefinitely a no-brainer, I'd say.
- 0-_-0 6y agoAbsolutely. No brain whatsoever.
- defen 6y ago(x) I shouldn't need to adjust my wristwatch every few miles
- Arcorann 6y agoAlready addressed: https://qntm.org/continuous https://qntm.org/continuous Suffice to say, we stopped doing that in the 19th century for very good reasons.
- patrickthebold 6y agoI didn't even think about the international date line.
- earthboundkid 6y agoTime zones were a premature optimization. Now we all have GPS, so we can return to location based times.
- bhaak 6y agoTimezones were introduced as a generalization of country wide time references. And those were introduced because trains became so fast that calculating train tables with local time was very confusing. That issue wouldn’t be solved with GPS.
- rwmj 6y agoOf course it would! You know the location of each station and your watch would automatically adjust depending on your location as you travel (using GPS or whatever). People with mechanical wristwatches might find it tedious :-)
- twic 6y agoThis post has been up for over 450 .beats, and seriously nobody has pointed out that Swatch Internet Time solves all these problems?
- pattisapu 6y ago. . . anno mundi . . . ante meridiem . . . :P
- zzo38computer 6y agoI admit that the abbrevation may be confusing, but the numbers would hopefully be large enough to avoid this confusion.