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Re:US Senate votes unanimously to make daylight savings time... by joshstrange on Tuesday March 15, 2022 @04:51PM (#30691510)
All of time is an illusion. I mean yes, time is constant but our units of measurement are 100% made up. TZs are just as much of an illusion as picking DST/Standard year round, clocks are only "true" because we say they are. If you want to live in a world where time is not an illusion then drop all measurements except seconds, measure things in mega-seconds/kilo-seconds/etc, and remove TZ/Hours/Days/Weeks/Months/Years. All of those measurements only make sense on Earth. Once/if we become a starfaring species then this will get even more complicated. Maybe "day" will still make sense if only because we are used to that circadian rhythm but week/month/year? Not worth much in space.
Re:US Senate votes unanimously to make daylight savings time... by wolverine876 on Tuesday March 15, 2022 @06:38PM (#30692870)
All of reality is an illusion, but I live in it, on Earth, and I am biologically tied to the sun and culturally indoctrinated and tied to conceiving of the day as starting in the middle of the night. Instead of trying to discard the legacy tech debt of billions of years of evolution and thousands of years (maybe more!) of culture that I need to sync with other humans, I think I'll find a solution that integrates with them.

The philosophy is interesting and valuable, truly, but it's not a solution today.