Re:UK sleep experts say it's time to kill daylight saving fo...
by floydnoel on Sunday October 27, 2024 @08:04AM
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but then you'd be back to the problem of coordinating times again. if you want to meet a buddy for lunch at noon but your two noons are different, now you need to communicate your offsets to each other constantly. every time check would require precise location data, that seems bad for privacy.
As a species, we didn't stop using solar time until sometime around the industrial revolution, when getting workers into factories at a precise predictable time became important to the people with money. (Some, such as people in monasteries, lived their lives according to clocks before this for superstitious reasons, but that wasn't the norm for the general population.)
We now have the technology to free ourselves from this clock tyranny and restore balance between our lives and daylight, if only we are willing to once again break from tradition.