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> it doesn't take long - only until 2028 - until "midnight" is sufficiently far from "the middle of the night" Honestly from my perspective, 3am is the middle
by lucb1e 4y ago
> it doesn't take long - only until 2028 - until "midnight" is sufficiently far from "the middle of the night"
Honestly from my perspective, 3am is the middle of the night (night-morning-afternoon-evening starts at 0-6-12-18 for me) and somewhere between 4 and 5 most people are probably asleep and the date change should occur. I can't count how often I've heard people clarify what 'tomorrow' means when the word is spoken after "midnight" but before going to sleep.
But yeah gotta pick something for the date change, it won't be worth the cost of change now. If we do end up ever switching to something like decimal time, this should be on the todo list though.
And I know "midnight" is historically supposed to be about the sun being the furthest from its zenith rather than in the middle between when you go to sleep and get up, however that occurs somewhere around 1am here (01:41 at its extreme, from July 17 till August 5th). If that's not enough to warrant a redefinition, 27 seconds accumulated since we started counting leap seconds are also not enough to warrant an update yet (following Facebook's logic here).