• lengau@midwest.social
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    18 hours ago

    Forced year-round pretending we’re an hour ahead means more kids will have to walk to school in the dark, sharing streets with sleep-deprived drivers who are also up before their bodies say they should be. That’s gonna kill people.

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      17 hours ago

      There is also a study that found a correlation between changing the clock to heart attacks incidents rising, suggesting that it might be caused by the clock change which triggers stress and sleep deprivation which triggers a heart attack

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        16 hours ago

        Yep, which leads us to the natural conclusion that noon on the clock should roughly equate to solar noon, year round.

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          7 hours ago

          That would mean ~360 timezones globally. More if you didn’t simplify to a single degree.

          Coordinating is enough of a pain across timezones without having to worry (much) about minutes.

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          12 hours ago

          The Romans’ did that as a naturally consequence of using sun dials for timekeeping. Hours were also shorter during winter. I think that would be a nice system to have.

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      15 hours ago

      Didn’t you hear? It’s now a crime to have your kids walk by themselves. Just ask the bastions of freedom that are Georgia and Texas.

      (That those events happened is obviously dumb.)