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I'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.
by patrickthebold 6y ago
I'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?