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Re:Daylight saving time is 'not helpful' and has 'no upsides... by kstrauser on Monday November 01, 2021 @01:35PM (#29070017)
This is the worst option. Since we started caring about time, "noon" has meant "when the sun is straight overhead". Unless there's a parallel push to change noon to 1PM (and midnight to 1AM), I'd fight that tooth and nail.
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Re:Daylight saving time is 'not helpful' and has 'no upsides... by dml2135 on Monday November 01, 2021 @01:41PM (#29070123)
Correct me if I'm wrong but actual "high noon" and 12pm don't currently line up except for a couple days a year, do they?
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Re:Daylight saving time is 'not helpful' and has 'no upsides... by kstrauser on Monday November 01, 2021 @02:16PM (#29070660)
Sure, but not by a huge amount, and less than an hour.

Time zones themselves mean that "solar noon" is rounded anyway, but they at least try to roughly go along with it.

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