Posted on 11/05/2017 4:44:06 AM PST by wintertime
While some of us prefer Howdy Doody Time ...........
Adding an hour every year has to be a huge impact on globull warming.
This has been a fun thread. Your post among others has me sitting here laughing. :)
It's not the clock. It's a pain for those of us who have to be at work at 0630. Every six months you have to change your sleep pattern. The older I get the more difficult it is. And it's all for nothing.
Where I live, we are in the -6 time zone ( six hours behind UTC); Washington, DC is -5; and Los Angeles is -8.
100 seconds to the minute, 100 minutes to the hour, and 100 hours in a day.
Good point, but I would say that after elimination the time zones, the days, weeks, and Months, let us just go to one international digital clock that has 8,760 hours.
Then everyone can decide what their end of day and weekends will be.
Come the end of the 8,760th hour it reverts back to 1 O’clock and another year begins.
GMT is already used for flying.
You might be surprised at how many people pass an entire day without worrying about the time 3000+ miles away. “High Noon” wouldn’t have much meaning if it occurred at 7:34 PM...
“Your proposal is white supremacist.”
We need to move to “Zulu time” - and measure it based on Kenya. Or wherever it is the Zulus live...
Zulu time means zero hours offset from UTC/GMT.
Better yet - let’s just reset the debt clock to zero and start over. :)
The Arabs want us to standardize on Mecca time.
Excerpt from Wikipedia about Poincaré:
In 1893, Poincaré joined the French Bureau des Longitudes, which engaged him in the synchronization of time around the world. In 1897 Poincaré backed an unsuccessful proposal for the decimalisation of circular measure, and hence time and longitude.[16] It was this post which led him to consider the question of establishing international time zones and the synchronization of time between bodies in relative motion.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henri_Poincar%C3%A9
Entities that need to be on GMT already are. Civil aviation is a case in point.
The original proposal for “metric time” (otherwise known as French Republican Time) was to have ten hours in a day, one hundred minutes in an hour (0.001 day), and one hundred seconds in a minute (0.00001 day). It would have eliminated those nasty conversions between base 60 and base 10.
“Then the government couldnt remind you that it has such complete control over your life, that is can oblige you to perform a meaningless task. Twice a year.”
So having “the govt” mandate that the entire world use the same time (zone) is exercising LESS control?
You’re going to have to provide a better reason than “I don’t like time zones - especially DST”, before you MANDATE that everyone use the same time.
Base 60 has a lot of factors in its favor.
10 days/week
The military fights its' wars on 24 hour Zulu time.
Live underground in the ICBM Launch Control Centers, under water in the Boomers, or fly in the B-52s and you will live by a 24 hour clock that is set to Zulu time. Nuclear forces all used Zulu time.
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