Mastodawn

myrmepropagandist May 4, 2025

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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Hugo Mills

@futurebird Better: abandon timezones as well. Set midnight to be sidereal midnight on 180° longitude, so in London, the point of highest sun is 00:00, and simply set e.g. the work day to what works best for your country. (So the work day in New York might run from 14.00 to 22.00, with noon at 17.00).

Then there'd be no need to worry about "are you 5 hours ahead or behind us?" -- your 18.00 meeting is the same time as my 18.00 meeting, but the sun's in a different position.