On Sat, Jun 22, 2024, 11:02 AM Stefan Monnier <monn...@iro.umontreal.ca>
wrote:
> > Yes, I realise that. The times are being displayed by the gettys,
> > controlled by the /etc/issue format string. Jobs are being run
> > by cron, logs written by rsyslogd, and so on. And the term is … ?
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> Maybe there simply isn't such a term. The subject is sufficiently
> complex/delicate that there can't be a term for every single situation.
>
I think we are losing sight of the fact that all of timekeeping is an
abstraction and over-generalization. Time zones were created to help
regularize railroad schedules over wide areas. Timezones are an abstraction
that permit us to _pretend_ that it is (physical) noon at the same clock
time over an extended area. When in fact physical high-noon, determined by
the sun's position in the sky, cannot be at the exact same time just a few
centimeters west or east of my eyeballs.
Stefan
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