Why isn’t this a popular thing?

  • Kairos@lemmy.today
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    1 month ago

    Because timezones were a result of town specific clocks, which were a result of people liking certain hours happening generally in line with where the sun is, like “noon” which still technically refers to when the sun is at its highest point.

    • HobbitFoot @thelemmy.club
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      1 month ago

      Time zones were the result of railroads getting towns to abandon their town specific clocks because of railroads.

      • hansolo@lemm.ee
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        1 month ago

        This really fails to acknowledge the hodegpode, anything goes chaos that was towns choosing their own noon based around someone with a watch and a bell looking at the shadow on a stick a few times a year.

        Sometimes standardization isn’t simply a terror induced by capitalism, and has accrual benefits.