President-elect Donald Trump on Friday confirmed that Republicans will work together to ditch Daylight Saving Time, the practice of changing the clocks by an hour twice a year.
No, my argument is that time zones are a formalization of what we observe in physical reality: that different parts of the planet are experience a different phase of the Earth’s rotation through direct sunlight in at any given moment. They can’t ever be perfect, so we all have to agree to a best approximation, and some communities decide for themselves that they don’t want to have a a dividing line through the middle of their city, and that’s fine because the whole system is meant for co-ordinating over long distances.
Which brings us back to the premise, they are just numbers. So what does it matter that the sun comes up at one number or another when they are already dynamic. And co-ordination over long distances would be perfect every time with a static time for the entire planet. As time is relative to us, why not make it static.
Hell we all just made up that it’s 2024. So every time the clock spins round we adjust until we hit 2025, but time didn’t start 2024 year ago, we just set it at a static point so there was no confusion. Imagine if you drove to work and it was 1994 there, and then 2027 when you flew home to see your parents. It would be nuts.
As time is relative to us, why not make it static.
Because we already have, when the time zones were created. All time zones are just offsets to UTC/GMT. And as you’ve observed, society at large wants to use a localized offset because it just feels natural to do so.
Greenwich, now you go and bring ole Henry VIII into this… Surely that’ll help. Haha. Hope your having a good day
