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Re:Spaniards are less productive, constantly tired: Spain is... by codex on Sunday September 29, 2013 @01:23PM (#6465805)
In this age of software and asynchronous communication, there is little reason to have so few time zones, or to have one 1d timezones rather than 2d. It would be nice if local time continuously skewed a few seconds each day (sometime around three a.m. perhaps) such that sunrise was always at seven a.m. Most (non-cave-dwelling) humans evolved to rise with the sun.
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Re:Spaniards are less productive, constantly tired: Spain is... by michas on Sunday September 29, 2013 @01:32PM (#6465843)
Timezones were introduced exactly to prevent the very thing that you propose: need to adjust clocks a few seconds each day. It was just too annoying.
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Re:Spaniards are less productive, constantly tired: Spain is... by codex on Sunday September 29, 2013 @03:05PM (#6466153)
Sure, but software clocks could adjust themselves automatically based on your GPS location. Almost nobody uses a mechanical clock anymore.
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Re:Spaniards are less productive, constantly tired: Spain is... by batbomb on Sunday September 29, 2013 @04:53PM (#6466478)
The problem isn't where you are at, it's where you are going.
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Re:Spaniards are less productive, constantly tired: Spain is... by codex on Sunday September 29, 2013 @09:51PM (#6467385)
Easy enough to calculate your destination time via software as well. I wonder if 2D time zones would reduce cancer incidence by encouraging consistent melatonin production via a daylight synchronized sleep cycle.
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