President-elect Donald Trump on Friday confirmed that Republicans will work together to ditch Daylight Saving Time, the practice of changing the clocks by an hour twice a year.

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    3 days ago

    Which brings us back to the premise, they are just numbers. So what does it matter that the sun comes up at one number or another when they are already dynamic. And co-ordination over long distances would be perfect every time with a static time for the entire planet. As time is relative to us, why not make it static.

    Hell we all just made up that it’s 2024. So every time the clock spins round we adjust until we hit 2025, but time didn’t start 2024 year ago, we just set it at a static point so there was no confusion. Imagine if you drove to work and it was 1994 there, and then 2027 when you flew home to see your parents. It would be nuts.

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      03 days ago

      As time is relative to us, why not make it static.

      Because we already have, when the time zones were created. All time zones are just offsets to UTC/GMT. And as you’ve observed, society at large wants to use a localized offset because it just feels natural to do so.

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        13 days ago

        Greenwich, now you go and bring ole Henry VIII into this… Surely that’ll help. Haha. Hope your having a good day

        • Baron Von J
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          23 days ago

          Greenwich, now you go and bring ole Henry VIII into this… Surely that’ll help

          Well if we’re all going to be in one time zone, then one has to be designated as the True Earth Time, and the world’s governments.have already decided which one it is.

          Haha. Hope your having a good day

          Likewise. 🍻

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            13 days ago

            Draft beer, can’t say I’ve had that in a while. You know your in a smaller town when everything only comes in cans and bottles. Then since both glass and aluminum are to of the easiest materials to recycle and reuse indefinitely, we do the most American things possible, throw them all I the trash with no thoughts on why we didn’t just buy a recycling bin, as all they sell is recyclables. Guess we have to worry about those napkins getting in there lol