> The reason the abstraction sucks is because the idea sucks. Got it in one. Relativity, universal time, the human circadian rhythm... To quote my all time fa

> The reason the abstraction sucks is because the idea sucks. Got it in one. Relativity, universal time, the human circadian rhythm... To quote my all time favourite HN comment quoting Plautus (presumably taken from R.R.J. Rohr's 1970 Sundials: history, theory, practice): > The gods confound the man who first found out how to distinguish hours! Confound him, too, who in this place set up a sundial, to cut and hack my days so wretchedly into small portions! When I was a boy, my belly was my sundial — one surer, truer, and more exact than any of them. This dial told me when ’twas proper time to go to dinner, when I had aught to eat; But nowadays, why even when I have, I can’t fall-to unless the sun gives leave. The town’s so full of these confounded dials the greatest part of the inhabitants, shrunk up with hunger, crawl along the street. — Plautus (c.254-184 BC) [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30045114 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30045114