Perhaps you already new this, but “Dilation Savings Times” with hours of varying length throughout the year was often the way hours were defined in ancient societies. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hour#Unequal_hours
Isn’t the world confused enough without having to change clock settings every six months? We already have time zones. Aren’t the solar cycles and the phases of the moon good enough for human beings? Nature and animals don’t need clocks at all.
Reminds me of something I read somewhere: only 3% of German verbs are “regular,” and some of the “irregular” conjugations are in fact more common than the regular conjugation.
(So what makes it “regular”? If you coin a new verb, German speakers will spontaneously apply the regular conjugation.)
Dragon Savings Time – Get rid of an hour on 23 April to give pesky St George less time to kill dragons
Perhaps you already new this, but “Dilation Savings Times” with hours of varying length throughout the year was often the way hours were defined in ancient societies. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hour#Unequal_hours
And when clocks came in, clocks were considered less accurate than sundials for that reason!
Very cool! And apparently Japan had actual mechanical clocks that worked this way: https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/M/bo27442023.html
I-have-no-idea-time: remove the hour hand from all clocks.
This seems ideal. Or just go back to hourglasses.
Isn’t the world confused enough without having to change clock settings every six months? We already have time zones. Aren’t the solar cycles and the phases of the moon good enough for human beings? Nature and animals don’t need clocks at all.
It bothers me slightly that we spend less time on “standard time” than off of it. It is not really the standard, now is it.
Reminds me of something I read somewhere: only 3% of German verbs are “regular,” and some of the “irregular” conjugations are in fact more common than the regular conjugation.
(So what makes it “regular”? If you coin a new verb, German speakers will spontaneously apply the regular conjugation.)
Also see https://www.babylonianhours.com/ for a modern-tech implementation of Babylonian time.