The US House voted Tuesday to pass a measure to enact year-round Daylight Saving Time across the country, springing Congress forward into an issue that has long stumped lawmakers and spurred impassioned pleas by parents, farmers and others with sharply divergent views.
It will now head to the Senate for approval before going to the president for his signature — though its chances in the upper chamber remain unclear.
Actually, all “standard” time means is that the time is somewhat related to the sun being directly overhead at noon. I say “somewhat” because once you carve the world up into zones like that, the sun will never be directly overhead at noon except maybe in the middle of the zone.
Did you know China has only one time zone? The entire huge country runs on Beijing time. The far west of the country sometimes doesn’t see a sunrise until 10 AM.
So, there is really nothing “standard” about Standard Time at all.
I would like to see the world finally move to Swatch Internet Time and resolve all this silliness once and for all.
That seems like a lot of work just to make time work more easily in base 10. Rather than that, we could achieve a similar result by simply switching our basic math system from base 10 to base 12.
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Because it’s a solution that works?
Horses were a transport solution that worked.
And the fossil fuel industry is a solution that is proving to cause a myriad of problems. What a world.
You want to go back to horses?
Time zones and Daylight savings were once a testiment to man’s ingenuity triumphing over the imperfection of nature. You want to go back to being a slave to the sun?
Ah, no?