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Lol, this was EXACTLY my high school sr. year social studies project in 1980, with roughly the same effort (sadly, I didn't create a working clock). I won firs
by s0teri0s 3y ago
Lol, this was EXACTLY my high school sr. year social studies project in 1980, with roughly the same effort (sadly, I didn't create a working clock). I won first place, with just this. The only difference is I named the metric units 'mints.'
- s0teri0s 3y agoAlso, no mention of the need for only 10 big-ass time zones instead of 24 relatively narrow time zones. The continental US might have only 2 time zones instead of 4.
- JR1427 3y agoWhy is having fewer time zones a good thing? Wouldn't this actually be confusing, because things would have to be happening at different local times depending on where you are in the time zone?
- eloisant 3y agoThis is already the case, timezones have weird shapes and some of them are huge. In Europe and China you have timezones spanning over 3 "sun" timezones. In practice that means the sun rising and setting at different times. People are used to have the sun setting late or rising early depending where they live.
- s0teri0s 3y agoI wasn't really advocating for it, I just think if we were crazy enough to adopt this time system, 10 time zones would also be a necessary adjustment.
- JR1427 3y agoAh, I see. That makes sense! Although not all timezones are +/- an integer number of hours.
- ulkis 3y agoNothing says that time zones have to align on even hours. They don't today - look at India for example.
- eloisant 3y agoIt's not super hard to create a clock, you just have to find a 24-hours clock then you create custom labels/board for it. Or if your system works with 2 rotations per day use a regular clock.