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Re:Someday aliens will land and all will be fine until we ex... by shadowofneptune on Sunday September 25, 2022 @05:30PM (#32976490)
The Swatch time is a variation on the fractional day. Astronomers use it, with .00 being noon and .50 being midnight. You can extend it to any precision you like, 1/100,000th of a day makes for a good 'decimal second.'

I like knowing what percentage of the day is over, a friend of mine says it'd drive her crazy knowing exactly how much time gets wasted.

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Re:Someday aliens will land and all will be fine until we ex... by dwighttk on Sunday September 25, 2022 @06:08PM (#32976884)
Why does midnight matter? And since we don’t use local noon, why does noon matter?
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Re:Someday aliens will land and all will be fine until we ex... by shadowofneptune on Sunday September 25, 2022 @07:12PM (#32977416)
It matters in the astronomer's case (which does use local noon) because that's when they do their work. For the version where .00 is midnight in the local time zone, well... it's how we live our lives! I'd argue the week is more important than the months for the same reason.
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