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Just a second, 2009 _ the Earth needs to catch up.

Technology Dec. 31, 2008 - 09:30AM JST ( 3 )

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cwhiteJan. 01, 2009 - 09:53PM JST

use both, make a compromise. Time sensitive programs can use Internet Time (NITS) while Humans can continue to enjoy time as a perception and part of our culture and heritage.
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KristiannaJan. 03, 2009 - 08:48PM JST

Generations would hate us if we changed the clock, because high noon would not be, high noon? If one o'clock is high noon then would we be running a 25 hour clock, and if high noon would be 12 o'clock what would happen to the extra hour? Would there be an extra mid-night add to the 24 hour clock? In future generations that would be born on Mars, Jupiter, Saturn or Uranus, how would they keep track of time based on an outmoded time value? If a person on Jupiter called a person in New York, how would they know what time it was, a thousand years from now? If they looked at their atomic watch with its 3d display of the solar system, would they know that it is six o'clock in the morning or seven o'clock at night? In tens of thousands of years, if we are traveling outside our solar system, it would be a mute point to figure out when high noon is on Earth. Maybe they will have sub-atomic clocks instead, and the whole issue would be all theory anyways. Who cares! Can you get the trains to run on time? To get the clocks on the coffee makers to run to an nanosecond, which is how long it takes to make a cup of espresso.
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likeitisJan. 03, 2009 - 09:16PM JST

use both, make a compromise. Time sensitive programs can use Internet Time (NITS) while Humans can continue to enjoy time as a perception and part of our culture and heritage.

OMG! I will have to keep an eye on you cwhite.

Indeed, both should be used. My suggestion is that everyone have a local clock and time zones are made smaller so that 12 pm is actually noon. The other clock is for all international purposes. Clocks and watches should be made to display both.

I should stop there, because my list of suggestions for time keeping are long long long. But what should happen before even that is ditching silly base ten for a base twelve counting system. The reason we do not use metric time is because base ten is stupid and not very useful. The French gave metric time a try and learned the hard way. Pity they did not apply that lesson to the rest of metrics.