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A comment on American Academy of Sleep Medicine calls for elimination of daylight saving time. Parent comment

Re:American Academy of Sleep Medicine calls for elimination ... by jcynix on Saturday August 29, 2020 @04:03PM (#24319010)
Solar noon is only that in the middle of a timezone, isn't it? And if you live on the east or west border of a timezone its not. So arguments for some "natural" time would need some kind of dynamic time zones, which the world had before trains where invented and needed timezones for their timetables, IIRC.
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Re:American Academy of Sleep Medicine calls for elimination ... by CydeWeys on Saturday August 29, 2020 @05:08PM (#24319454)
The variation throughout the year is not caused by your relative longitude within the time zone. It's caused by the rotation of the Earth and Earth's orbit.

You're talking about a separate issue which does also exist, but that global time makes worse. Right now solar noon is always roughly somewhat close to local time noon, rather than noon being, say, 02:00Z.

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