When I take my family or when went with students to remote isolated areas of the world, we discard the watches, the phones, and the computers.
No time, just the sun, moon and if you are on the coast, tides.
It’s liberating, its quality time.
We measure time by the sun to this day, except well, it's variable because of the eccentricity of earth's orbit. But this variation is understood, so we can apply that correction.
But supposing you don't apply that correction? Solar time does very well on its own, certainly for everyday purposes.
If you accept noon to noon as a day, how are you going to discover the variation of this interval? Who in these days can give an answer?
I’m shed of the watch & the phone. I’m old and my voice is
too crackly to talk much on the phone. I have a watch; but
cannot stand anything on my wrist all the time. I do have
a watch I got a J.C. Penney at least ten years ago. It’s a
snap-on bracelet type instead of an expansion band and keeps
good-enough time. Probably about $14 back then. Takes a
new battery from time to time. - The computer I still need
to ditch, but FR is a magnet. I don’t e-mail much at all.
We do need to free ourselves from all “time” traps as much
as possible. I’m retired and just notice the clock mostly
for doctor’s appointments.
Spent a lot of time in Brazil - where Americans are advised, “Leave your watches at home.” So true there and many Latino countries.
If you have a business meeting of 5 people in Brazil at a set time, maybe one person will be on time if you are lucky; 2 more 15 - 30 min. late, 2 more almost an hour late, and one no-show (without notification). This is considered normal.
At a church in a large city where I was speaking, I was concerned that it was 30 min. from where we were staying, and 15 min. before the time of the gathering we were still at the supper table. We were 20 min. late. The hall was maybe 20 - 20% full.
We continued to fellowship, and the meeting finally began about 45 min. late with only about 50% of the people there. As I stood to speak some 30 min. later, many were still entering the hall, and continued to do so for another 30 min. When I finished, the hall was finally full.
I think Brazil is the worst of Latino nations in this way.
Now I find that it’s biblical! Being a time-urgent person, I’d go nuts....
About a month ago I attended a graveside funeral which started at 11 o’clock a.m., I was at the gravesite area for the funeral, I noticed over by the boxwood and myrtle garden a sundial and I went to observe the sundial. It was almost 11 o’clock a.m. Local time East Coast & I noticed that the Sundial Shadow fell upon the X which meant it was 10 o’clock according to the sundial. Now, granted this was before the time change. I stood there pondering what time zone was I in? And surmised that according to the Sundial and the solar calculation rendered we were located in the same time zone as Tennessee (according to the sun. And that a time change would not even account for the upcoming DST correction. So now I’m wondering that solar time must be different than the graduated system of timekeeping and time zones we were presumably located. It struck me odd as I was thinking we should be on Nova Scotia time but then after I thought for a few minutes I realized it was more like Central time on the East Coast according to the Sun at this particular time of year which was February and it just struck me as interesting.
I like your idea and can see it would be healthy in many ways.