myrmepropagandistMay 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?

Show threadPiers CawleyMay 4, 2025

@futurebird The necessary tech? Sundials?

We'd still need railway time, of course; that got learned the hard way.

Show threadRoger BW 😷
@pdcawley @futurebird These days a basic SoC that could go into a relatively non-smart watch has enough processing power to do the calculations. A phone could do it without even slowing down.
(Not so much "what time is it here" but "what time is it for my mate over there". Which is of course the advantage of zonal time.)
May 4, 2025 at 11:05amWeb