• bountygiver [any]
    link
    fedilink
    English
    9
    edit-2
    4 months ago

    Alternatively, we have this arbitrary standard of 9am means morning, if we share a single universal time, different places would just have a different arbitrary time being the “morning” instead.

    • KillingTimeItself
      link
      fedilink
      English
      64 months ago

      i would aruge that the arbitrary factor of “9am being morning” is entirely to do with the fact that morning is actually a solar time phenomenon, whereas global time does not have the concept of morning, since it is merely imitating the local solar time.

      Local solar time being the literal point in the sky that the sun is in.

      It gets even funnier if we include people who aren’t “normal” I for one, consider noon to be morning.

    • @BigMikeInAustin@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      English
      24 months ago

      We could keep the 0 hour as the “middle” of the night and 12 being the “middle” of the day (though I’m not sure if that’s really the sun’s high spot for the day for any places).

      But with fully controlled mirrors, we could make it exactly 12 hours, so we could just then switch to the 0 hour being when the sun comes up.

    • Rikudou_SageA
      link
      14 months ago

      And then you get one fella complaining that he had to wake up at 4 am and the other one is thinking “what is this mf complaining about, that’s middle of the afternoon, I on the other hand had to wake up six-fucking-pee-em”