Comment on Midnight is a stupid time for the clock to roll over to the next day
realitista@lemmus.org 1 week agoThen we have to have a system for days that are no longer a perfect 24 hours, but rather a few seconds off every day. That means you can no longer plan much of anything that runs for longer than a day without doing a bunch of offset math, it would be a disaster for anything that required accurate measurement of time.
PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.ca 1 week ago
I’m aware, but that is a modern problem only. And for that, we could have modern solutions that approximate dawn.
The goal isn’t for it to be perfect day start at sunrise, it’s for it to be conceptually satisfying and more closely match how we talk and intuit about days.
realitista@lemmus.org 1 week ago
I think it would be even less satifying as for most people who don’t live on the equator it would be off by hours anyway.