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Earlier this year I was curious as to what would happen if we used a clock that was actively calibrated to the solar high noon. I made this little web page here
by snissn 13y ago
Earlier this year I was curious as to what would happen if we used a clock that was actively calibrated to the solar high noon. I made this little web page here: http://mseiler.com/highnoon/ http://mseiler.com/highnoon/ that uses your geolocation data and a few date-time and astronomy libraries to do just that. It tells me that in NYC the time is shifted by about 11 minutes and that number varies a lot throughout the year.
It would be a very different world if we were to set up meetings using the actual solar time calibrated to the date and location of our meeting points!
- upofadown 13y agoI suspect that your clock (or one with the same result) is the future... Right now we have 2 clocks; Universal Time and time zone time. Even today, there is no real practical reason to have such small time zones. It would make sense to expand the size of the time zones to that point that there is only one (Universal) and just use solar time for the cases where daylight is important.