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Re:U.S. senators reintroduce bill to make daylight saving ti... by heleninboodler on Wednesday March 10, 2021 @04:44PM (#26416673)
No, it doesn't matter. Where I live, the time the sun is at its highest varies from 11:53 to 13:18 and at no time in the history of my city (I checked all the records) has a child ever asked why the sun isn't directly overhead precisely at noon.
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Re:U.S. senators reintroduce bill to make daylight saving ti... by cgriswald on Wednesday March 10, 2021 @05:23PM (#26417229)
Well, you must not live where I grew up, because I asked this very question...

...which lead to me grokking time zones, time, solar noon, etc in a way I don’t think I would have if I hadn’t asked. Somehow solar noon not being noon didn’t have a negative impact on me as a kid. Weird, right?

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Re:U.S. senators reintroduce bill to make daylight saving ti... by heleninboodler on Thursday March 11, 2021 @12:22PM (#26426512)
My answer was (hopefully obviously) tongue-in-cheek with regards to this never actually happening, but more importantly, it was a response to the idea that children would find it strange that the sun isn't directly overhead at noon. I don't know how a child could find that strange if it so rarely even happens that it is directly overhead at noon.
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