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   Charlie Stross (cstross@wandering.shop)'s status on Monday, 04-Nov-2024 00:34:52 JST Charlie Stross

   • Floaty Birb
   • Rudy

   @rudy @floatybirb

   I disagree with all of these options!

   Time zones were invented to make railroad scheduling easier in the 19th century. Today we have accurate microsecond clocks everywhere and can calculate local sunrise/sunset trivially.

   We should ditch time zones—and also ditch the 60 minute hour while we're at it! Switch to the 80 minute hour, 18 hours/day. Or better still, switch to a metric/base 100 time system (100 "new" seconds/minute, 100 minutes/hour, 10 hours/day).

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     Floaty Birb (floatybirb@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 04-Nov-2024 01:41:17 JST Floaty Birb

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     • Rudy

     @cstross @rudy I get why we might do metric time, but what's the advantage of an 80 minute hour and 18 hour days?

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     Charlie Stross (cstross@wandering.shop)'s status on Monday, 04-Nov-2024 01:41:17 JST Charlie Stross

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     • Floaty Birb
     • Rudy

     @floatybirb @rudy It's a Brian Aldiss reference.