I’m very aware of what it means to be human, especially every time the daylight savings nonsense changes. But what the number on the alarm clock says when I get up doesn’t mean jack shit as long as it’s the same actual time of day.
A sundial that has the numbers changed around is still the same sundial, and that’s the point here.
Sundials haven’t been relevant for a long time. We use network time these days, calibrated against UTC (and possibly represented as Unix time).
Personally I’d likely think it was neat to switch to metric time (ten hours per nychthemeron), or kiloseconds (87.6 in a nychthemeron), or even swatch @beat (1000 per nychthemeron).
Somewhat related, the English word for døgn (nychthemeron) is such a mouthful.
The general suggestion is to just use UTC everywhere. Ask if you don’t know what UTC is.
Not having everyone set their clocks to show 12:00 at their local solar noon became necessary. Time zones as such weren’t and aren’t really necessary, except to keep alive the convention that 12:00 is noon (in the winter half of the year for the countries with daylight savings).
Yep. The colour theory stuff in there makes MBTI and horoscopes look detailed and well-documented in comparison
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