• dubyakay@lemmy.ca
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      8 months ago

      That’s very arbitrary.

      The sun is at the highest when the sun is at the highest. It’s called the solar noon. If you are in Thunder Bay, it happens arouns 1PM EST/2PM EDT. If you are in Gaspé, it happens around 11:20 EST/12:20 EDT.

      See how much binding the timezone to a specific shift doesn’t make sense based on your arbitrary metric?

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        8 months ago

        All that means is that the layout of the time zones is stupid. Noon is noon, and my opinion is that clock noon should be as close to solar noon as possible.

        or we should eliminate time zones entirely and use a single clock time worldwide.

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          8 months ago

          Eliminating time zones would be pretty amazing.

          If we eliminated DST for the summer, or would not have permanent DST, we’d need to change culture to not have 9-5 banking/office work days but rather 8-4, 7-3 or 6-2, similar to how the trades already work.

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            8 months ago

            we’d need to change culture to not have 9-5 banking/office work days but rather 8-4, 7-3 or 6-2, similar to how the trades already work.

            Realistically we already do. There’s enough variation in start times… yeah 9-5 is traditional but plenty of places have slightly different times