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It's not obvious to me that there would be a loss of precision. If you are a farmer, you check the solar calendar and plan activities based on that. For your da
by 2muchcoffeeman 5y ago
It's not obvious to me that there would be a loss of precision. If you are a farmer, you check the solar calendar and plan activities based on that. For your daily work, you still have the normal 24hour day.
But we do all sort of dumb time related things:
- day light savings
- leap seconds, days, years
Some places too close to the poles don't have normal day/night cycles of light. So we already tolerate a lot of weird time stuff. This way we keep tolerating it and get rid of the calculations.
- SkittyDog 5y agoWait... Why is all that timekeeping stuff "dumb"? Because you don't see a reason for it, and you can't imagine that you might not yet know the reason why? That's just plain egotistical, man. https://wiki.lesswrong.com/wiki/Chesterton%27s_Fence https://wiki.lesswrong.com/wiki/Chesterton%27s_Fence You need to learn the actual reasons why precision synchronous time exists. Until you do that, you're just wandering around in the dark, being silly.