Re:Time Has No Meaning at the North Pole
by flohofwoe on Thursday March 19, 2020 @08:51AM
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But what's the point of a global time when the sun rises and sets at different times across the world anyway? Humans live by the 'sun clock', not by UTC. For instance, to arrange a remote meeting you still need to check what time will be convenient for the people around the world, and a global time doesn't make that any easier (arguably even worse). Just because UTC makes sense for machines doesn't mean it makes sense for humans. And machines should adjust to humans, not the other way around.
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Interestingly, you highlight an error in the article that gave me pause:
> Coordinated Universal Time, which is based, ironically, on the position of the sun relative to Earth.
As you say, UTC is not a sun clock. It is based upon Atomic Time.
I also wondered who, knowing history, would consider the concept of December not to be fabricated. (-:
Re:Time Has No Meaning at the North Pole
by jhayward on Thursday March 19, 2020 @12:06PM
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> As you say, UTC is not a sun clock.
UTC is most definitely a sun clock. It is coordinated to correspond to within 1 second of mean solar time at 0º longitude.
That it is an Atomic Time clock that is kept close to a sun clock does not make it a sun clock.
Re:Time Has No Meaning at the North Pole
by jwandborg on Thursday March 19, 2020 @12:22PM
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If it was a sun clock it wouldn't have to be coordinated, it would just be.
Not true, since it has leap days and leap seconds.