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We need human time: two dimensional time zones around major metropolitan areas, where time skews automatically a few minutes every morning at 3 a.m. to ensure t
by new_realist 5y ago
We need human time: two dimensional time zones around major metropolitan areas, where time skews automatically a few minutes every morning at 3 a.m. to ensure that sunrise is the same time each day. No daylight savings jumps, and computers can handle cross-zone scheduling. This is easy to do now that everyone has a smart phone or smart watch.
- hhebbo 5y agoI like the explanation! I believe the 2 dimensional time zones are: local time zone, and global time zone. The local time zones already exist, the global time zone also already exists and it's UTC. hTime puts both in one clock so the reading of time is the same everywhere and still maps this to our local times for our daily life locally. How would you implement your idea? Do you have any sketches or notes about that?
- joshspankit 5y agoWhile we’re at it, can we base weeks and months on the lunar cycle so that we have 13 months of exactly 4 weeks each? Edit: Not sarcasm or a bit. Genuinely. I’d love to be more in sync with nature by having our time reference based on sunrise and the lunar cycles
- godDLL 5y agoI use four suits of 13 weeks/cards, tied to local climate. Winter goes up from A of clubs to K, spring goes down from K of spades to A. A kind of a agricultural calendar. You know when to plant things in the garden, when the peaks of trimming and gardening work are in the year, and when the heatwaves will be over with. It's very nice.
- hhebbo 5y agoThat’s neat!
- hhebbo 5y agoNot a bad idea at all. I'm sure we can tackle that. I actually played around with another concept as well which is using the Sun's location as our reference instead of UTC. This then gives our solar system a unified time, not only Earth. It's an incomplete concept still. I have it here in this blog post https://medium.com/adventures-in-consumer-technology/introducing-solutions-to-solve-the-mess-of-time-zones-cdf44a7ee4ae https://medium.com/adventures-in-consumer-technology/introdu... Would love to hear what you think.
- joshspankit 5y agoThanks for the link, I just read it. Like hTime, there are some potential psychological show-stoppers but I feel like there’s a solid focus on using the very things that time were supposed to be based on.
- hhebbo 5y agoYes, it still needs more cooking, I'd love to hear more thoughts on that. We might need such a concept for a multi-planetary clock.