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Tbh this sounds like a problem to bring up with employers and not whole societies. Anyway people should do this daylight saving forever experiment and contempl
by inciampati 4y ago
Tbh this sounds like a problem to bring up with employers and not whole societies.
Anyway people should do this daylight saving forever experiment and contemplate these issues in the dead of winter. We can come back to this in a few decades.
All those standard start times are based on a world centered on solar noon. Maybe the semi ancients were onto something.
- adhesive_wombat 4y agoMany "semi-ancients" had variable length hours from ancient Egypt right though to about the 14th century. Even after the introduction of mechanical clocks with uniform hours, some systems counted from sunset, not noon. Eventually the noon reference became fixed upon, but it's only noon because it was easier to measure the shadow in that way. Other than a vague but unfounded sense of aesthetic need and the obsolete practically of synchronization with a sundial, solar noon isn't special.