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Maybe trying to cram invented units and regimented behavior into a naturally varying but predictable system was a bad idea.
So what do you want? "I start work at sunrise". What's your solution here that doesn't use invented units?
Maybe we let people have more flexibility. Stop thinking that we all need to dance at the same time like a bunch of puppets.
We might have to dismantle a few things first
Excellent. I have a list ready.
That's fair. My work lets me start anytime between 7 and 9, it shouldn't be an advantage but required by law when feasible imo. Your comment sounded more like doing away with the notion of time as a unit more than anything else though.
That is my goal but I realize it’s only achievable on a personal level.
But let schools start later in the winter so kids aren’t up before dawn, let folks have flexible start times so they can get the sleep they need, that sort of thing.
This at least helps treat the mental symptoms that come from being treated like a machine while not being one.
Yes exactly start work sunrise +1h, end work dusk -1h or 9h later which ever is shorter. We are humans not machines.
Tbh though, with how all our phones are connected to the net, we could probably have a rolling daylight savings. So add 4 minutes or wtv amount every week to keep the sunrise hour always the same. So your start time would always be sun stable so to speak.
That’s a very broad and stupid take. That basically implies all measurements of nature should be thrown out the window. We need something to base things by for uniformly and understanding across people.
Yes we do now and since we’re in the trap maybe we stop struggling and let people start work later in the winter instead of flopping hours back and forth.
Adding flexibility will likely reduce negative health outcomes more than either strategy to attempt to line up a fake thing like the “hour” to a real thing like the sun.
But my actual, personal solution will be never to use hours or minutes again someday.
We got weekends. We got 40 hour weeks. We can get summer and winter hours. Less daylight, less work. No time change. Sleep in. Come home early. No sun, we're done. Time to play video games, make your partner come, work on a personal hobby, enjoy your life.
Let's meet when the sun is at 20 degrees, gotta be at work before 50 degrees.
I can see this working for some people
Humans shouldn’t need any more time precision than hand-widths from the horizon.
50 degrees where you are right now, or where your workplace is?