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You can't have 12:00 be the time when the sun is highest unless you're willing to shift to infinite time zones.
by cheschire 6y ago
You can't have 12:00 be the time when the sun is highest unless you're willing to shift to infinite time zones.
- mac01021 6y agoYou can have it be closer to 12 than to 1 with only 24 timezones though.
- Terretta 6y agoWell, I want it closer to 1 than to 12. It’d be weird for 1 PM to be less directly overhead of a sun than 11:30 AM. // Pure opinion, formed living in southern U.S., northern Europe, and equatorial Africa. But ... I could get over it.
- mac01021 6y agoSo you want "midnight" to refer to "approximately one hour from the middle of the night".
- Dylan16807 6y agoCloser to 12:30 or slightly later on average, I think. But since it's a range at least an hour wide it's more like: the middle of the day/night will be as close to 12:00 as possible, but no earlier, anywhere the timezone reasonably fits.
- runarberg 6y agoAs someone who grew up in a permanent DST (true noon closer to 13:30 on average) north of 60° I can tell you that you probably wouldn’t want to be a teenager forced to wake up 3-4 hours before sunrise in large part of the winter. Health experts from said country don’t want that either for the general population and have advised the government to move to a permanent standard time instead, an advice which the government has since chosen to ignore.
- t-writescode 6y agoAs a professional adult that works 10-6, working past sundown for a shorter amount of time is preferable.
- _ph_ 6y agoBut you can set up timezones, so that the difference is minimal when rounded to full hours. The high point of the sun doesn't need to be precisely at 12:00, that would be silly, especially as the high point of the sun has a seasonal variation too. But we can keep the difference small.