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xkcd #3272: Time Change (imgs.xkcd.com)
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xkcd #3272: Time Change

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All discussions of daylight saving time policy are doomed by a mix of contradictory, inconsistent, and impossible preferences, which is why I think the only thing we can really hope to do is to make it worse.

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All discussions of daylight saving time policy are doomed by a mix of contradictory, inconsistent, and impossible preferences, which is why I think the only thing we can really hope to do is to make it worse.
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[–] 3 points 3 months ago (1 child)

They used to do this. Hours were divisions of the day, like slices of a pie, rather than a specific length of time.

Using equal hours, and dividing them into minutes, was something only astronomers did to help with their calculations.

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