Get rid of political time-zones and DST and simply define 6:00am to be sunrise world wide.
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Get rid of political time-zones and DST and simply define 6:00am to be sunrise world wide. Each day starts at 6am and counts from there.
(If you are really brave let the length of the hour vary by latitude so that sunset is always at 6pm as well. In the winter up north the night hours are simply longer than the daylight hours. But this is too enlightened I think.)
We have the tech to do this. The first one is very practical. What time is it? How many hours since sunrise in this location +6?
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Get rid of political time-zones and DST and simply define 6:00am to be sunrise world wide. Each day starts at 6am and counts from there.
(If you are really brave let the length of the hour vary by latitude so that sunset is always at 6pm as well. In the winter up north the night hours are simply longer than the daylight hours. But this is too enlightened I think.)
We have the tech to do this. The first one is very practical. What time is it? How many hours since sunrise in this location +6?
@futurebird I don't agree. There are millions who always wake at 9am or 10am and have never seen the sunrise, so we should set sunrise to 11am so all those people will see the sunrise for the first time and their minds will totally be blown.
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Get rid of political time-zones and DST and simply define 6:00am to be sunrise world wide. Each day starts at 6am and counts from there.
(If you are really brave let the length of the hour vary by latitude so that sunset is always at 6pm as well. In the winter up north the night hours are simply longer than the daylight hours. But this is too enlightened I think.)
We have the tech to do this. The first one is very practical. What time is it? How many hours since sunrise in this location +6?
@futurebird this, but also keep UTC around for logistics: flight schedules or intercity calls: UTC; local business hours or your school/workday: local time.
You can even use different notations/words: "half past eight o'clock" or 8:30am for the local time at UTC-5:00, "thirteen-hundred thirty" or 13:30 for UTC time
I don't want the variable length hour, though, because (while it won't hit so hard in the education sector with the typically reduced summer workload, or agriculture that's already working longer summer hours), I don't think most folks would trade longer summer work hours for more winter time off now that we have electric lights.
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@futurebird this, but also keep UTC around for logistics: flight schedules or intercity calls: UTC; local business hours or your school/workday: local time.
You can even use different notations/words: "half past eight o'clock" or 8:30am for the local time at UTC-5:00, "thirteen-hundred thirty" or 13:30 for UTC time
I don't want the variable length hour, though, because (while it won't hit so hard in the education sector with the typically reduced summer workload, or agriculture that's already working longer summer hours), I don't think most folks would trade longer summer work hours for more winter time off now that we have electric lights.
@futurebird ugh, wait, fixing sunrise rather than noon means your UTC offset varies with latitude and time of year as well. We *can* do that with computers, but it would be a massive pain (not that the current time zone system isn't…)
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Get rid of political time-zones and DST and simply define 6:00am to be sunrise world wide. Each day starts at 6am and counts from there.
(If you are really brave let the length of the hour vary by latitude so that sunset is always at 6pm as well. In the winter up north the night hours are simply longer than the daylight hours. But this is too enlightened I think.)
We have the tech to do this. The first one is very practical. What time is it? How many hours since sunrise in this location +6?
@futurebird Nobody ever buys it, but I still think this is the way to go: https://around.com/time-for-earth-time/
