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You 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
by timeinput 5y ago
You 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 5y 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 5y 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 5y 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.