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It's not irrelevant to them (and anybody else who uses or wakes to daylight) coordinating with the rest of society, though. Which is the function of a standardi
by wpietri 5y ago
It's not irrelevant to them (and anybody else who uses or wakes to daylight) coordinating with the rest of society, though. Which is the function of a standardized time. It didn't exist up until railroads were popular; before that each town set its own time based on solar noon.