11/10/21 Roger Luebeck Natural Time The time of day is not a social convention, and there is nothing arbitrary about how the 24 hour clock was established. The time of day is a scientific fact for the very reason that the earth's rotation relative to the sun is a scientific fact. It's one thing to have never stopped and given it any thought. But of those delusionals who think they can actually defend false time, I ask: Did you never make it all the way to kindergarten? The 24 hour clock is based on the position of the sun. The earth does rotate on its axis, afterall. That is why high noon is 12 o'clock. And it is why midday is 12 o'clock. The sun is precisely midway between sunrise and sunset, timewise and arc length wise, when at its highest position, every day of the year, everywhere on Earth. And it is why natural time is the only rational target within the constraints of geo-political boundaries. Such boundaries might introduce some error, as will the width of a time zone. Adding error to any such error cannot be justified. Public and private entities will set their hours as they see fit, which is all that's needed to address any concerns about the balance between morning and evening lightness or darkness. In fact public and private entities regularly fiddle with their hours of operation, regardless of whether or not false time is in effect. If you change the clocks, nothing prevents them from changing their hours of operation, nullifying your change. Voting does not change facts. The time of day is what it is. It is not a matter of opinion, any more so than what the sum of two plus two is. My clocks show the correct time and I communicate the time accordingly. 03/15/22 update: In case I didn't already know that I live in Wonderland, the U.S. Senate has reaffirmed it. They just passed by unanimous consent a bill to make so-called "Daylight Saving Time", rather than actual time (which of course is based on the position of the sun), the all-year clock system. Since there appears to be such overwhelming consensus for having more daylight hours after the evening television news, there should be no reason that the networks (ABC, CBS, NBC ..), all of whom are clearly on board for all-year DST, can't reach a consensus to shift their daily schedule by one hour. It provides the precise same added daylight in the evening (and of course less morning daylight) that everyone says they want, while preserving natural time. In fact, if just ABC cared to move its schedule up one hour, that would give it an advantage over the others would it not. The others would quickly follow suit -- if the majority of society really does want more daylight time after the evening news or whatever. Same goes for all other public and private business entities. And if you're not in the majority with your Daylight Saving Time scheme, then you still don't have a leg to stand on do you. It is sacrilegious and idiotic to have 1:00 be high noon. Change the hours of operation, not the clock. ------------------------------- Now that the pretenders have read this, they will say: "Of course I've considered the cosmological reality." [They did not.] "I simply maintain that the tradition of the evening news being broadcast at a certain clock time -- in conjunction with desiring an extra hour of daylight after the evening news -- trumps the cosmological reality." Oh? The evening news trumps the Sun and Earth? You are not for real. ------------------------------- I can see the elementary school children being told by their teachers that there are 24 hours in a day and that midday is 1:00. All the children will know that 24 divided by 2 equals 12, and they will all think that adults must be severely mentally retarded.
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