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Re:0.999...= 1 by bmn__ on Tuesday April 28, 2020 @04:11PM (#23011325)
> Let’s not forget that time zones are a human invention less than 200 years old.

What's the point of that statement? Before the introduction of formal time zones, we had thousands of informal ones, one for each settlement, calibrating noon to the zenith of the sun.

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Re:0.999...= 1 by austincheney on Tuesday April 28, 2020 @04:56PM (#23011880)
The point is to indicate that humans knew how to wake up, eat food, communicate, and conduct business (even over long distances) before they had clocks much less the relatively recently invented time zones.
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