People forget how recent is the development of our whole ungainly apparatus. A century and a half ago, time zones didn’t exist.
Because everyone was on Local Mean Time, where the east end of the Chesapeake Bay Bridge is about 20 seconds ahead of the west end. Though I imagine cell phone networks might be able to make it work with no intervention by the user.
I say we go back to "variable hours" where we insist that sunrise-to-sunset is 12 hours no matter what. I'd certainly like to spend more time hibernating in bed.
when yr glsspshr was a young astronomer, the idea of _everything_ rising an hour later than usual was not good, so one summer I wore a watch set to standard time and stayed on that. Fuck DST. I can see how DST would upset those who are 12 or younger.
Now I realize DST is only something to try to confuse people the earth isn't flat! Wake up, sheeple (an hour earlier)!!11!!
Arizona and |Indiana| will, of course, secede from the planet rather than give up their confounding attachment to everyone else's inconvenience.
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I don't need any more reasons to avoid Indiana.
Because everyone was on Local Mean Time, where the east end of the Chesapeake Bay Bridge is about 20 seconds ahead of the west end. Though I imagine cell phone networks might be able to make it work with no intervention by the user.
I say we go back to "variable hours" where we insist that sunrise-to-sunset is 12 hours no matter what. I'd certainly like to spend more time hibernating in bed.
when yr glsspshr was a young astronomer, the idea of _everything_ rising an hour later than usual was not good, so one summer I wore a watch set to standard time and stayed on that. Fuck DST. I can see how DST would upset those who are 12 or younger.
Now I realize DST is only something to try to confuse people the earth isn't flat! Wake up, sheeple (an hour earlier)!!11!!
Most folks don't realize how big a deal it is to make the [trains run on time.]
Or what happens if you don't.
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And just to throw timekeeping-related stuff up here…
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[So many sundials…]
[When to dial down your transmitter]
[Digging up latitude and longitude (and height, etc. etc.)]
And let us not forget the debate over the upcoming [leap second]!
(Wherein POSIX broke a standard and insists everyone else changes to suit.)
I get POSIX jokes
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I regret I only have one upfist to give
Time may change me, I can mess about with time.
[Time Waits for No One.]
Tom Waits for no one.
http://youtu.be/40FjQH3Xw0M
An old favorite, thanks!
[Moar Time.]
Wow. My soul has been psychedelicized!
GMT traditionally starts at noon, which could be confusing.
And ephemeris meridian or GTFO! 17' 07" E or fight!
Is it true the the fed is thinking of dropping the prime meridian to 0.25%?
And what about the prime ribian? Will it still be medium rare?
Julian days, bitches
Like god said to David Koresh: well done.