If you like the idea you’ll probably appreciate the comment I just left were I made a program to generate it.
Time zones are complicated. One one side I like them because 12 is always noon which means you can get used to the sunset times. On the other hand I think the time shouldn’t be related to sunrise at all and everyone should use UTC (or equivalent). Let sunrise and sunset be their own thing. Again let’s not try and contain nature but instead define a simple method and just use that. Let the natural world tick according to it’s own clock. We have our own atomic ones.
This also brings me to the idea that we should just use a single clock. Take an atomic clock, make it start counting and build all timekeeping around it. Basically the same thing computers are doing but for everyone. Let Sunrise, Noon, Year all be it’s own thing and have a single timestamp for most timekeeping. Due to liking base6 I’d advocate for this timestamp to be in base6 instead of base10. By using it we are going to get an intuition of how much some length of time is that is separate from days.
Thanks, I’ll check that out. A big part of what I liked about your calendar is the direct correlation to a natural cycle though, and I like the idea of solar noon for the same reasons. The idea isn’t to constrain nature but acknowledge it and adapt ourselves, centering days on the sun’s zenith at ones location just makes intuitive sense to me and lines up with my own perception of time when disconnected from infrastructure. Completely useless and impractical computationally, but very well aligned with a human sense of place in both time and space
If you like the idea you’ll probably appreciate the comment I just left were I made a program to generate it.
Time zones are complicated. One one side I like them because 12 is always noon which means you can get used to the sunset times. On the other hand I think the time shouldn’t be related to sunrise at all and everyone should use UTC (or equivalent). Let sunrise and sunset be their own thing. Again let’s not try and contain nature but instead define a simple method and just use that. Let the natural world tick according to it’s own clock. We have our own atomic ones.
This also brings me to the idea that we should just use a single clock. Take an atomic clock, make it start counting and build all timekeeping around it. Basically the same thing computers are doing but for everyone. Let Sunrise, Noon, Year all be it’s own thing and have a single timestamp for most timekeeping. Due to liking base6 I’d advocate for this timestamp to be in base6 instead of base10. By using it we are going to get an intuition of how much some length of time is that is separate from days.
Thanks, I’ll check that out. A big part of what I liked about your calendar is the direct correlation to a natural cycle though, and I like the idea of solar noon for the same reasons. The idea isn’t to constrain nature but acknowledge it and adapt ourselves, centering days on the sun’s zenith at ones location just makes intuitive sense to me and lines up with my own perception of time when disconnected from infrastructure. Completely useless and impractical computationally, but very well aligned with a human sense of place in both time and space