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I average out the spring and fall changes and just set my clocks 39 minutes ahead year-round.
this post was submitted on 25 Oct 2023
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I'm onboard with first moving to this, and then decimal time, aka metric time.
in all seriousness, I'm a big fan of metric time. change it so there are 100,000 seconds in a day (currently the figure is 86400) - the duration of a second would only be 864/1000 of present. a minute can be 100 seconds, which would be equivalent to 86.4 seconds now, and there could be 50 minutes in an hour (4320 current seconds, compared to 3600, or 72 minutes) and 20 hours in a day.
it would be a bit of a shift, but I don't think it would need impossible, and just think of the advantages.
no, really, please think of some advantages. I'm drawing a blank.
I apologise as I too am drawing a blank, but apparently it'll be more conducive to time zone removal according to ChatGPT.
Also metric time gives 10 hours of 100 minutes each in a day, not 20 hours of 50 minutes.
that's another option, but we're used to having 12-16 hours of daylight, having that fall to 5-6 would be a much bigger shock than 10-12.
not to mention having every hour last the equivalent of 144 current minutes would make the hours really drag on.
Yeah, but so will the ordinal date calendar with no months, and the shorter seconds but longer minutes. I don't think the discomfort is an argument that's entirely valid here, the transition of course shouldn't be abrupt but the end goal should be the ideal version, that we should aim for and not the midway steps.