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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?