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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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[–] drosophila@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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.

[–] dumples@piefed.social 1 points 1 day ago

It kind of makes sense in a way. It feels more natural