Maybe we could refer to places by when solar noon is for them in UTC.
So that instead of knowing a simple +/- hours you have to first calculated it off of 12?
I think it doesn’t make communication across timezones easier. Instead of everyone rolling with a comparable schedule and just adjusting for the time difference, you will have to remember many more local schedules as you lack an intuitive understanding.
Also solar noon is even worse of a metric, because it would completely fracture timezones. Timezones already are a compromise, so that people in a more connected zone can work with each other more easier, effectively demanding the people on the east of that time zone to stay at work later and in the west of that time zone to rise up earlier relative to the sun.
I think it would be equally easy to coordinate across timezones. Nobody is likely to ask about “solar noon,” they’re just going to ask about the time of the things they’re trying to coordinate.
“Let’s meet for lunch when you get in town!”
“Great! When do you guys have lunch?”
“Around 16:00.”
“Oh, ok. That’s around dinner time for me.”
Easy-peasy. The biggest reason it seems weird to us is that we are used to the current way. There’s no reason our brains couldn’t get used to (for instance) waking up at 01:00 and going to bed at 17:00 if that was the normal we had all grown up with.
Though, that said, there was someone on Lemmy a few months ago who absolutely lost their mind at the idea and verbally abused me about the very concept, so you know… your mileage may vary.
So that instead of knowing a simple +/- hours you have to first calculated it off of 12?
I think it doesn’t make communication across timezones easier. Instead of everyone rolling with a comparable schedule and just adjusting for the time difference, you will have to remember many more local schedules as you lack an intuitive understanding.
Also solar noon is even worse of a metric, because it would completely fracture timezones. Timezones already are a compromise, so that people in a more connected zone can work with each other more easier, effectively demanding the people on the east of that time zone to stay at work later and in the west of that time zone to rise up earlier relative to the sun.
I think it would be equally easy to coordinate across timezones. Nobody is likely to ask about “solar noon,” they’re just going to ask about the time of the things they’re trying to coordinate.
Easy-peasy. The biggest reason it seems weird to us is that we are used to the current way. There’s no reason our brains couldn’t get used to (for instance) waking up at 01:00 and going to bed at 17:00 if that was the normal we had all grown up with.
Though, that said, there was someone on Lemmy a few months ago who absolutely lost their mind at the idea and verbally abused me about the very concept, so you know… your mileage may vary.
I didn’t mean solar noon like, exactly. But close-ish. Like timezones are now.