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This is stupid. While true we didn't have time zones per se until fairly recently, it was worse... Basically noon was when the sun was directly south, which m
by robbrown451 12y ago
This is stupid. While true we didn't have time zones per se until fairly recently, it was worse... Basically noon was when the sun was directly south, which means one town away might be five minutes off.
- PhantomGremlin 12y agoI agree it's stupid. Just as stupid as the harebrained proposals that occasionally pop up to divide a day into perhaps 10,000 seconds. Or to throw out our current calendar and maybe have 10 months of 36 days with 5 extra holidays a year. Etc. Not gonna happen. But the reason it gets talked about at all is because it's something that ordinary people can think about and propose. It's not rocket science. As an alternative, wake me up when the USA goes completely metric. That's something much more important and useful and still it hasn't happened in my lifetime, even though I was taught metric in school nearly 50 years ago.
- mikestew 12y ago> As an alternative, wake me up when the USA goes completely metric. Oh, $DEITY, don't get me started on that off-topic topic. All that book learnin' forty years ago and all we got out of it was 2 liter bottles of soda. We don't even get the miles/kilometers signs anymore. At least I rarely have to deal with SAE fasteners these days. But point taken: we're not getting rid of time zones if the U. S. can't even jump on board on the measurement system used by every other country (yeah I exaggerate a bit, Captain Pedantic) in the world.