I say we go back to local solar time for everyone. And I mean _everyone_. Your phone knows where you are, and sets your clock so 12:00 happens when the sun is at the highest point in the sky for your location.
@mattdm Alternative proposal: a dynamically shifting clock where sunset time remains consistent as much as realistically possible. Leap seconds/minutes are added at end of week or month to keep sunset time consistent. The changes will be so small and gradual that they will hardly be noticeable. This way the clock works with our biological clock and not against it.

@zaidka

Yes, this is also excellent. Sunset at, say, 7pm every day, for everyone, everywhere.

(And before anyone disagrees, please remember that the benchmark is the current timezone status quo.)

@mattdm @zaidka incidentally this is roughly how hours were counted until some time in antiquity. That is, the length of hours depended on the length of the day.

@bkhl @zaidka

I'm open to combining this with fixed 12:00pm as solar noon and 7am as dawn. Scale the hours to make them fit.

Lars Marowsky-Brée 😷 (@[email protected])

Leap Days should be in winter. Everywhere. I propose the Southern hemisphere holds theirs on August 32. #DateTime

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