On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 01:11:06PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > Days beginning (near) daybreak, and years beginning on a seasonal > boundary and having 13 each 28 day months are also good ideas that > won't get implemented. Too much inertia.
How would "days beginning (near) daybreak" cope with extreme latitudes? Vary the lengths of hours so that the day starts at (what we currently call) 1am in the summer and at 3pm in the winter? Or when you get above the arctic circle, where the sun may not rise/set for multiple 24-hour periods? No, I think the much better idea would be to ditch timezones and put the whole world on UTC. Get rid of DST and 12-hour clocks, too, while you're at it. There is absolutely no real benefit to having the clock say "7am" when you wake up and "11pm" when you go to sleep instead of (assuming UTC-6) waking up at 1:00 (which, remember, represents the same actual time as is currently called "7am" in that timezone), working 3-12, and going to bed at 19:00. -- Dave Sherohman NomadNet, Inc. http://nomadnetinc.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
