Re: [EXTERNAL] Please sign this thing! Eliminate the bi-annual time change caused by Daylight Savings Time

Posted by Owen Densmore on Mar 15, 2013; 3:53pm
URL: http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/Please-sign-this-thing-Eliminate-the-bi-annual-time-change-caused-by-Daylight-Savings-Time-tp7581998p7582026.html

I like it!  Assuming spherical cows .. i.e. an hour's shift twice a year (although they are not symmetric .. more days of DST than std time) .. we'd shift 60 seconds per 6 months or 10sec/month or roughly .33 sec/day.

The asymmetry would make things fairly non-linear, but easily computable and managed by the time servers.  Our watches would have to be "smart" but that's been coming anyway with the iWatch rumored out soon.  And making slight adjustments to my fav old time clocks would just be a monthly tweak .. likely the newspapers would keep a daily time column much like the weather.

   -- Owen

On Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 11:59 PM, Arlo Barnes <[hidden email]> wrote:

I have heard a proposal for doing smaller adjustments more often - but why not take that to the logical extreme and do it continuously? Most people use some form or other of computer to tell time nowadays anyway, and even physical mechanisms would not be extremely difficult (I think) to redesign to change smoothly throughout the year.
-Arlo James Barnes

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