Midnight is a stupid time for the clock to roll over to the next day

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• Kolanaki@pawb.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

  It should work like Animal Crossing.

  The new day doesn’t start until 6am.

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  • PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

    Exactly, but except 6am should be 00:00

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• FriendOfDeSoto@startrek.website ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

  I would say it isn’t that stupid. The old humans picked one of the extremes, in this case the most complete absence of the sun (which includes the lowest point in the sky for some of the Vikings etc.) to mark this change. I think if they had picked midday we would have the same argument just about the daytime. And if they had picked any other time there would have to have been a “good” reason, like a religious one. It’s the time of day Mohammed went to Medina or the Buddha looked at nirvana. Otherwise the old humans wouldn’t have been onboard with that decision for centuries.

  Time keeping is like the imperial system of measurements. It works but it doesn’t make a lot of fucking sense.

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• DagwoodIII@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Noon is when the sun is highest in the sky. That’s the midpoint of the day. Midnight would be when the sun is on the other side of the world* and is now coming closer.

  *yes, I am aware of the actual facts. I am giving the historical view point.

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  • PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

    I know what they are, I just think they’re stupid, because what day does the night belong to?

    It feels like a day should be one daylight period and one night period, but it’s currently a daylight period and two half nights.

    Like… If you say “night of January 1st” is that from midnight to dawn or from dusk to midnight? And then what day owns the other part, and why isn’t it in that calendar day?

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    • paper_moon@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

      I forget which exact midnight represents, but the immediate second after midnight would be the ‘morning’ of the next day. If you’re born at 12:00:01 am or 00:0:01 in military time, then you’d be born the next day.

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• ch00f@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

  Back in college, we had “Random Standard Time” where midnight was midnight, but it won’t “tomorrow” until 5am.

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