You know, waking up outside of your circadian rhythm can really fuck with you. So, I propose daylight fairness time. Instead of splitting up timezones by hours, we should split timezones by one (1) minute increments. This allows people to most effectively decide their living location to match their own personal circadian rhythm!
this post was submitted on 09 Jul 2026
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this is basically how time worked before we invented railroads
How about we don't do that, and instead ensure that workers can chose their starting hours so they match their rhythm?
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JUST! DO! THINGS! AT A! DIFFERENT! TIME! DAMMIT!!!
If you feel like time should always be an hour ahead, just do things an hour early! There's no need to change our entire reckoning of time
I am very surprised by the push back to this I'm reading in the comments. Keeping time stable will on average, be a 30 minute difference relative to the sun, and folks are fearing they will spend their entire days mired in darkness? I don't get it.
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We should all just use UTC. To be honest. It's not like noon has to be at 12'oclock everywhere.
I keep hearing this and can’t believe people are serious with this suggestion. In my mind it’s the most ridiculous solution to time tracking.
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They'll pick the wrong one, and we'll have to live with it getting dark at 5 PM for the rest of history.
So is this making “spring forward” permanent, or “fall back” permanent?
spring forward
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I tried to have the conversation of just doing away with time zones all together with my wife once. She could not understand that the number associated with when it gets daylight and when it gets dark is arbitrary. Instead of getting daylight around 6am it would be getting daylight around 10am (if we adopted UTC for example) or gets dark around midnight (12AM). The weird thing is she lived in Alaska far enough north that during the summer it didn’t even really get dark at night. I also wanted to talk about the alternative calendars like the IFC or the Gormanian but I’m pretty sure I would have broken her brain. She’s pretty sharp but apparently abstract thought about concrete things like dates and time are a bridge too far.
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