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Re: Morocco abruptly drops clock change

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Post by nikanj »

cmroanirgo wrote: post #87
kmm wrote: post #76

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm curious to know, what is the point of linking to solar time? What advantage is there to the Sun reaching its highest point at 12 'o clock? Most people are awake for about 6 hours before noon, and about 10 hours after. Most social events also happen after the work day. So our day is already shifted from what would logically follow from our clock. Being on +2 already feels like a compromise between the two. I'd lov…

As I presume you know, Solar noon represents the highest point of the Sun in the day. It seems fitting that the 'work hours' should be 4 hrs either side of that (8am-4pm). Being a 'sunlover' I'm regularly up before dawn so that I can catch the first rays of Sun as it crosses the horizon. To me it's the most beautiful part of the day. Unfortunately, we have semi-arbitrarily defined 'zones' that fluctuate 1hr because o…

Most working professionals I know are working 9 to 5, not 8 to 4.

Re: Morocco abruptly drops clock change

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Post by 8bitsrule »

zzo38computer wrote: post #19

I don't like DST and think that instead the time zone offset should be set so that 12:00 is at approximately solar noon, and then count the seconds without changing for DST or anything else.

Occurs to me that, technically, for those of us who are wired, we could end this eternal time-battle once and for all.

Since we're having our locations tracked anyway, each of us could be our own time-zone, have whatever time each of us wants... on a whim. Coordinated-by-device-times!

This week we might go mostly-retro and arrange our meetings by local-solar-noon. Next week, full-retro, by local moon-phase.

Re: Morocco abruptly drops clock change

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Post by 8bitsrule »

toyg wrote: post #55
Symbiote wrote: post #47

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It's worth keeping Greenwich Mean Time as the time used in Greenwich, London and Britain. When arranging meetings etc, it's sometimes confusing to people far away from Britain that, during the summer, it's not "GMT" in London. That would be worse if Britain decided to use GMT+1 permanently. What other countries do leads on from that, otherwise there's not much point to timezones.

No, it’s worth dropping the anglocentric “GMT” altogether and using UTC everywhere instead. Let’s decouple time measurement from accidents of history, and make rational choices about what we want our life to be in the future, rather than being shackled by pointless traditions.

Oh, man, gotta let our British friends hold on to something of empire. ;->

Re: Morocco abruptly drops clock change

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Post by [deleted] »

iav wrote: post #81
jstanley wrote: post #39

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Your timezone does not dictate how dark your evenings are. The days have exactly the same amount of daylight regardless of what numbers you choose to label the hours with.

Quite a few people work relative to market trading hours and customary times to hold earnings calls and roadshows. Sales people work around their store business hours. Schools have fixed schedules. Hours sadly dictate schedules for most people

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Re: Morocco abruptly drops clock change

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Post by masonic »

zzo38computer wrote: post #82
kmm wrote: post #76

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm curious to know, what is the point of linking to solar time? What advantage is there to the Sun reaching its highest point at 12 'o clock? Most people are awake for about 6 hours before noon, and about 10 hours after. Most social events also happen after the work day. So our day is already shifted from what would logically follow from our clock. Being on +2 already feels like a compromise between the two. I'd lov…

One advantage of solar noon is use of sundials.

I, for one, am getting sick of rotating my sundial twice a year.

Re: Morocco abruptly drops clock change

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Post by masonic »

amanaplanacanal wrote: post #96
toyg wrote: post #64

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Having someone say that, for example, “from tomorrow all your health data will be in Google Docs!” is likely to generate caos and harm people. Democratic government must operate on scales measured in decades, not months, and make sure to be as inclusive as possible (remote island with satellite internet? Probably will oppose any solution with 80mb of single-page JS. Etc etc). This makes for slow progress. It’s just h…

But one person can say "We are now at war!" and the missiles start flying. That seems like a much more fraught decision than whether or not to stay on daylight saving time.

Pro tip: launch first, declare war later.

Re: Morocco abruptly drops clock change

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Post by azinman2 »

cmroanirgo wrote: post #87
kmm wrote: post #76

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm curious to know, what is the point of linking to solar time? What advantage is there to the Sun reaching its highest point at 12 'o clock? Most people are awake for about 6 hours before noon, and about 10 hours after. Most social events also happen after the work day. So our day is already shifted from what would logically follow from our clock. Being on +2 already feels like a compromise between the two. I'd lov…

As I presume you know, Solar noon represents the highest point of the Sun in the day. It seems fitting that the 'work hours' should be 4 hrs either side of that (8am-4pm). Being a 'sunlover' I'm regularly up before dawn so that I can catch the first rays of Sun as it crosses the horizon. To me it's the most beautiful part of the day. Unfortunately, we have semi-arbitrarily defined 'zones' that fluctuate 1hr because o…

Except we have more time in the evenings after work than we do in the mornings before work. To me work should be 10-6.

Re: Morocco abruptly drops clock change

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Post by kencausey »

yen223 wrote: post #73
jstanley wrote: post #39

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Your timezone does not dictate how dark your evenings are. The days have exactly the same amount of daylight regardless of what numbers you choose to label the hours with.

I propose we solve the obesity crisis by shifting all weights by 10kg down.

I don't particularly agree with the OP but I hope you realize that mass/weight has a clear 0 point, whereas time modulus one day does not.
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