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The last time I lost way too much sleep and felt funky from day light saving time I created this concept of a continuous day light savings time. What you need t
by snissn 12y ago
The last time I lost way too much sleep and felt funky from day light saving time I created this concept of a continuous day light savings time. What you need to do is pass in a gps location and from there it comes up with the current time as if you were the center of a time zone. It sets high noon according to the actual celestial noon.
It kind of goes back to the reason that time zones were created in the first place -- when trains came into popularity it became very hard to coordinate times between trains arriving from different towns that calibrated themselves to their sun dials. The time zones helped standardize the time so that you knew when the train would arrive.
This introduced towns that would wake up earlier and later than noon and introduced big problems in season variations.
So here's a silly demo: http://mike.rs/highnoon/ http://mike.rs/highnoon/
- Retra 12y agoHow does this help people coordinate? If your time is different from mine, how do we get to the same place at the same time?
- lelandbatey 12y agoYou'd technically pin the date to UTC, then have all future and past dates automatically adapted to your localk time zone, where possible. For non-electronic methods of relaying dates, you'd have to use UTC. Nome of this is solid, just what I thought of while sitting here reading your comment. Seems like it may be problematic but with some possible upsides.
- Retra 12y agoIt would be a hard sell...
- snissn 12y agoThat's one way. You could use "New York time" too. So if I have a meeting with someone in Ohio sf and nyc we can use a micro time zone related to a major city. If you were going to create a massive number of time zones, it would make sense to peg them to major cities. So nyc could have a time zone, that's slightly off from Boston and same with sf and la
- transfire 12y agoI thought of this very idea once as well. It is actually pretty cool to think about. The nice thing about it is the consistency of the time relative to the sun. No matter where you go the "relative time" would match up with the suns position (per the season). But I also realized that when scheduling events you have to consider the time adjustment depending on the distance east-west the event will be from you. Since the Earth is approx. 25,000 miles around in 24 hrs you have to adjust plus or minus 3 to 4 seconds per mile of travel (if I haven't miscalculated). Of course, when coordinating events more than a few dozen miles away, one would surely use "absolute time" instead. I think watches that had both would be awesome. You could identify your exact longitude by the difference between your relative time and the absolute time.