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Because humans use time as an indicator for day and night
by kangalioo 4y ago
Because humans use time as an indicator for day and night
- bobthepanda 4y agoAlso, historically, we did care about the equinoxes and solstices falling on specific days of the calendar. We may not care anymore, but emphasis on may.
- Vvector 4y agoAnd you can still use UTC as your indicator for day and night. In 100 years, it would only drift around 1 minute.
- Hamuko 4y agoWe don't really do that on a second accuracy though. We need to add a whole new day to the calendar every four years to make up the difference. Meanwhile we've added less than half a minute worth of leap seconds.
- cesarb 4y agoWe already accept an error of half an hour (most timezone offsets are multiples of a whole hour) or more (many timezone boundaries are widened to align with state or country boundaries). A couple of minutes is nothing next to that, and if start getting too far, we can simply redefine the timezone offsets (which we already do twice a year in many places, and any device which might be moved across timezone boundaries already have to deal with that).