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My thoughts exactly. Keep 12pm at the time the sun is in its maximum and just do things earlier/later.
by sgdpk 6y ago
My thoughts exactly. Keep 12pm at the time the sun is in its maximum and just do things earlier/later.
- outtatime 6y agoWe used to have that, and it was dreadful. Every municipality had its own local time. Railroads made that untenable, and led to the creation of timezones.
- baddox 6y agoIs it possible that such a system would be more tenable now with cheaper and more ubiquitous devices that can measure or calculate local solar time?
- pseudalopex 6y agohttps://qntm.org/continuous https://qntm.org/continuous
- amptorn 6y agoWell, railroads still exist.
- cgriswald 6y agoTwo people viewing the sun at its zenith at the same time can disagree as to what time that occurred by hours using standard time. You’re advocating the abolition of time zones...
- Dylan16807 6y agoThey didn't say not to round it! For non-distorted time zones, when the clock strikes 12 everyone can look up and say that the sun is roughly closest to 12.
- sgdpk 6y agoYes, that's the point. Of course it should be sensible and rounded. If we were too literal with this definition, 12 would even change everyday because of the analemma [1]. [1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Analemma https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Analemma