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Yeah, changing date when everyone is sleeping is a horrible backward idea, I want my days to change randomly in the middle of daylight. We could then invent a

Yeah, changing date when everyone is sleeping is a horrible backward idea, I want my days to change randomly in the middle of daylight. We could then invent a new word to differentiate between the "day" as the date and "day" as this daylight cycle. Then we would need seven new week day names to differentiate between the official date and light cycle. Lot of fun in perspective. But then it would make visiting other countries easier, no need to set my watch... oh... wait I have to change my whole brain to adapt to the new schedule instead.

blahedo 12y ago
This is the issue where it really falls apart for me. As someone who regularly stays up until 2 or 3 or 5 am even now, I'm well aware of the careful phrasing that is required if I send an email in the wee hours referring to upcoming events---"today" and "tomorrow" are to be avoided, or clarified. Probably most of the people here have had to be careful about this at some point. But, it's a reasonably constrained problem, as it currently stands; at least we don't generally have to deal with events that cross the date boundary. If that date transition happened in the middle of the bulk of daytime events, though....