@canada Residents of #canada, would you be in favour of your province or territory abolishing annual clock changes and moving to a consistent, year round time?
If yes, what would you prefer: year round daylight savings time (an extra hour of sunlight in the evening) or standard time (an extra hour of sunlight in the morning)?
What I want goes the opposite way, but it’d require some serious infrastructure-updates, 1st:
I want days to begin either at solar-dusk or at solar-midnight,
& night & day each to be divided into 12 “hours”,
& people to begin anchoring to the natural cycles of night & day, instead of pretending that living-in-boxes divorced-from-nature is somehow our best choice!
It’d take some getting-used-to, but with microcontroller-clocks, for doing the calculations, it’s work beautifully.
Midday becomes locked to the sun.
Midnight becomes locked to the sun being at nadir.
Dawn means something, so does dusk.
Etc.
Mechanismists would hate it, of course, but all the creatures of Nature, whom we’ve been holocausting, would probably benefit.
( this also requires accepting the biological fact in “WHEN: The Science of Perfect Timing”, by Pink,
that there are early-morning people, there are late-morning people, there are owls ( which covers nearly everybody else ), & what that-book missed, is that there also are chaos-“cycle” people, whose biology isn’t regular.
Having the late-morning people & the owls NOT have to be at work early, would reduce the deaths-on-the-roads.
& having each day’s cycle be mere-minutes different from the last, instead of the arbitrary 1h-jump in spring/fall, would remove the sudden-jump-in-deaths on the roads, then, too, obviously )
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Where in a time zone do you lock the solar noon/nadir too? That’s a (usually) 30 to 60 minute variation depending on the size of the zone.
The entire reason standardixed time began to exists, was the extreme difficulty in time deferences between cities that could now be travelled between in short order by train (specifically Ozford and London, which were 5 minutes apart).
Any longitudinal travel would quickly change your time! Talk about scheduling nightmares. Late for a meeting in Toronto because you called from Ottawa. A 10 minute train ride is 9 minutes in one direction and 11 the other!