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Most developed countries are far enough from the equator that the amount of daylight is very different during different parts of the year. Perhaps it would make
by literallycancer 6y ago
Most developed countries are far enough from the equator that the amount of daylight is very different during different parts of the year. Perhaps it would make sense to base the schedule around sunrise and sunset rather than around arbitrary numbers?
- emodendroket 6y agoHow exactly are we supposed to run a modern society without the concept of time?
- timeinput 6y agoYou can have a time system based around sunrise. I mean with most clocks also being internet connected computers it wouldnt be too hard to make a system where you measure time in hours after average sunrise in a tike zone. That is where I live right now it's sunrise +3. I'll reschedule the daily 'standup' to SR+3.5, the banks open at SR+3 and close at SR+11. One major consequence I can see is that now we have north south timezones on top of east west. This would break in the extreme north or south where there are days without a sunrise.
- emodendroket 6y agoThat's what time zones are. You're just proposing more granular time zones. And none of them can fix the problem that in a lot of places the days are just short in the winter.
- nitrogen 6y agoTimezones don't account for seasonal changes in sunrise times, and DST is a poor hack that tries and fails. Using local solar time would be an improvement in that regard. On short days you just do less.
- emodendroket 6y agoTimezones are a reasonable compromise between the desire for people to be up during the day, on one hand, and the need for a modern economy to be able to coordinate people over long distances, on the other. Turning up the dial all the way to the left here is going to cause a lot of problems.