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NegativeNull @lemmy.world

10h ago

Why, oh why?!?

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I'm convinced at this point that it's kept around at least in part because it's disruptive and disorienting.

We were so close a few years ago when the senate passed a bill with unanimous consent, only for the house to say fuck you and refuse to even consider it (can't have anything useful getting done).
- No one could agree on what the permanent time should be, that's why it failed.
  
  I thought it failed because Rs in the senate said "wait no, we passed it by mistake, don't vote on it please", and democrats in the house have them what they wanted. A favor that would never be repaid, because they are stupid
  
  This is any group decision making in a nutshell. All the arguing over the thing that matters least.
  They could've picked either and everyone would just adjust.

Set the damn clock to noon at noon on summer solstice and leave it the fuck alone.
- I'm all for getting rid of DST, but the idea of making it permanent is beyond ridiculous.
  There is not a valid argument for it. Your solution is the only sensible one.
  
  Then we run into the whole every town has its own time zone problem

Its 5am and I'm cranky because I known it's 4am!

Those both seem like Jellico orders…
I don’t want to hear about it. Turn the clock ahead one hour. Get it done.

Imagine if the enterprise had to update all their clocks and schedules to align with Starfleet Headquarters
- cannonoically, they do!
  Consequence of warp speed, even long hours at impulse cause some discrepancy. They time sync with federation beacons after being out of touch for a while.
- Time management is already likely a nightmare in the Federation due to all the differing planets/civilizations/etc
  
  Isn't that what the stardate is for? Since it seems unlikely humans would adopt a wildly confusing system that also doesn't seem to be related in any way to earth or its culture.
  At least that's what I always assumed, the stardate is the unified federation calendar.
  
  I heard Sisko received a commendation for using biogenic weapons on a planet with a 79 hour day
  
  There was a "Men In Black" cartoon. One of the funniest episodes was that J couldn't adapt himself to MIB's 37 hour long day.

Let's distribute the extra time across all days.
Can someone do the math and find out how many seconds/minutes would be added to each day?
- My understanding is you’d lose time that way actually because our days are actually just under 24 hours.
  
  But they are slowly getting longer as the Earth's rotation slows. Humans have actually slowed it down to a measurable degree through climate change and melting icecaps.

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