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"Once you've built a system that understands timezones and offsets from UTC" I think that's the point he's complaining about: it's damn hard to build such a sy
by riobard 12y ago
"Once you've built a system that understands timezones and offsets from UTC"
I think that's the point he's complaining about: it's damn hard to build such a system because of the artificially induced complexity.
- brudgers 12y agoIt's the simplicity that's artificial. Noon is a local event that occurs when the sun is due south. Timezones and standardized times are the abstractions.
- dragonwriter 12y ago> Noon is a local event that occurs when the sun is due south. "When the sun lies neither east nor west of a particular point on the surface of the Earth." At least, if you want "noon" to be something that happens everywhere on Earth.
- dllthomas 12y agoEverywhere but two points, anyway...
- icebraining 12y agoBut the "natural noon" you described is more simple than the timezones with DST that might or might not happen depending on who was elected locally and nationally. A system where noon is regulated by a single, immutable equation describing the position of the Earth vis-à-vis the Sun would be much easier to implement.