And I am very much in favour of this.
*No, I’m not actually in favour of this. Was trying to make a “Rethink basic concepts like space and time” joke that completely failed.
And I am very much in favour of this.
*No, I’m not actually in favour of this. Was trying to make a “Rethink basic concepts like space and time” joke that completely failed.
ne, dankon
Great idea; people in Saskatoon would work 1500-2300 and people in Delisle would work 1515-2315.
As Howard Cosell famously said … “the West coast is 3 hours behind civilization” … when complaining about the late start times of West coast Monday Night football games.
Why are you if favour Kate? Seems to me it will set up a situation in business of still needing to know another locales time. Only it will be necessary to know what time is required at the other locale is the normal business day starting and finishing time. Cheers;
Unbelievably stupid idea.
Under the current set up high noon is roughly the same time of day – the sun at its highest point – around the world. So when some in Hong Kong says its noon – I know what stage of the day it is. How the heck is anyone going to know what 8:00 in the day looks like in a part of the world a thousand miles or more east or west.
This is all the more stupid in the electronic age we live in where anyone with an Internet connection is synchronised to the other.
(Not surprised you support such a cockamamie idea lance)
“Sandford Flemming, a Scottish-Canadian railway engineer, was the first to”
Flemming? *Flemming*???? these dumfcuks can’t even spell the man’s name. how can they be trusted to implement something so far reaching?
then again, it was some sort of convoluted puckerfaced parsimoniousness that got Pluto demoted. I’m beginning to really mistrust ‘science’. too much politics and agenda.
sigh . . . solve 1 ‘problem’ by creating COUNTLESS more.
The train will arrive late at the same time everywhere in the world. Super. And in Westerns, it will be “High 5.00 AM”, not “High Noon”.
The military has been using ZULU time for decades. It’s also called “UTC”.
Noon is still gonna be noon.
Light will be light.
Dark, still hard to see in.
You can call it 3pm Statist Time,or The Red Queens Tea Time, but it will change nothing.
These two and their wisdom are evidence of useless parasites with too much time on their hands.
Proper response; “Get a Job”.
Of course having gotten away with the idiocy of “Daylight Savings Time” I am sure our intellectual overlords will try to run with this one too.
The military has been using Zulu, i.e. the time zone that adheres to Greenwhich Mean Time, as a common reference. The military still knows what the local time is in the time zone where they are actually operating. Same with the airline pilots. They are flying on a schedule that refers to Zulu time, but they also know what time it is locally in the time zones where they take off and land.
Makes too much sense. Every officialisty clock in the world already uses it.
Exactly…..as a “common reference”. And one that doesn’t get confused with time zone changes or Daylight Savings Time. It is actually for that reason it is used. To minimize confusion across zones.
From the linked article (my bold):
Where have we heard that before? Sounds like progressive politics to me.
It’s not true that from a physics point of view there is only one time.
According to the theory of special relativity, synchronicity is an illusion. If two locations are moving in different directions or speeds (and that is true over the entire globe except the two poles) then its meaningless to ask if it’s the same time for both.
Well the proposers of this did invoke physics…
“Time is relative. Lunchtime, doubly so.”
– Ford Prefect
yah, we need to make things more simple for the simpletons, like Rance. Electronic gadgets already have created a world were “thought” is a diminishing quantity and quality. Time as man “uses” it is structuring tool and a synchronizing tool. Leave it as it is, it will at least cause some need for thought amongst the millennial.
john roberstson. day light savings time has some benefits, causing the need to think is one of them, butt for you that appears to be a fail!!
rabbit, time as we think of it, has not been proven to exist. As it is malleable, it is largely an illusion.
Here is a better way to organize time:
A year with 36 ten day weeks. Work 6 long days and 4 days off each weekend.
You could have either 12 three week months or 9 four week months.
Each week, month and year has the same day-date combination.
The 6 and a quarter days extra is thrown in as a short week in what is now the Christmas – New Year break.
Or we could have 7 x 30 day months plus 5 x 31 day months plus, switching one of the 30 day months to 31 days in a leap year. Too easy.
Put these two geniuses up there with the guys who wanted to cover the Sahara desert with a white thermal blanket to offset global warming, not of course to exclude the previous geniuses who wanted to cover the Arctic with soot to offset the effects of global cooling.
These types should be encouraged to take up daily opium smoking so that their lunatic ideas remain on the couch with them as they share their dreams and visions with their fellows, and do no harm to the rest of us.
Okay so there are 52 weeks in a year and if you divide by 13 there are four weeks per month even with an adjustment at the end of each four years allow for the leap. That means that we have the year based on a deck of cards. Call each of the four weeks by a suit eg. first week is spade then diamonds then clubs then diamond week. Each Monday would alway be one of four dates etc. The 13th extra month could called Sol and could be between June and July … etc .. see how cool that would be …. Just thinking …
Rabbit, you’ll have to try to use that logic when you are late picking up your wife. My guess is you will be sleeping on the couch!
“Rather than try to regulate a variety of time zones all around the world, we should instead opt for something far easier: Let’s destroy all these time zones and instead stick with one big “Universal Time.”
Must be a progressive – if it’s too hard to regulate, simply ban it.
This would never work since Universal Time is based on Greenwich Mean Time. Within a year or two of adopting this someone would clamor that it is racist to base time on an English standard. Countries would soon start implementing their own time zones. Iran and Palestine would condemn it as a Jewish plot and start their own time zone, probably GMT -1200 years. First Nations in Canada would be upset by the patriarchal concept of standard English time, Trudeau would give in and Canada would have its own time zone except for Quebec, and things will still be half an hour later in Newfoundland.
And once countries realize they can control their own standards of time, how long until they start on the calendar? As predicted in Infinite Jest, years will be sponsored by corporations. Countries will jump on board and in order to reduce their deficits will start selling naming rights to the highest bidders. Year of the Bombardier C Series, anyone?
OK, since the ficasusts have determined we all need to be at the same time,Exactly what time is that? The one on the ficasusts alarm clock? Since they made this proposal, what will be the physical constant that will determine what that universal time starting point should be. Time intervals are OK, that we can tie to something like a specific frequency of an emission wavelength of a designated atom. Which designated atom? Where does the basal time rest (start) Greenwich? Why? I think it should stat at Bug Tussle, Oklahoma. Why is your idea better. This just goes to show that some ficasusts are born wise and some otherwise.
It’s a gross misconception that the Military (US-Chinese-British) etc. use one standard ZULU or GMT time all over the world.
The military uses time zones the same as the rest of the world does, except they use different names (that are in alphabetical order) to describe what time they are operating at.
This article best describes military time zones. There Are 25 military time zones.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_military_time_zones
“Rabbit, you’ll have to try to use that logic when you are late picking up your wife. My guess is you will be sleeping on the couch!”
Women can be surprizingly parochial when it comes to matters of high science.
there was and is an old joke that said, the world will end at midnight, a half hour later in newfoundland.
s/b “Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.”
– Ford Prefect
IIRC
‘gotten away with the idiocy of “Daylight Savings Time’
Talking about idiocy, take the Saskatchewan example where a political decision from the sixties forms the basis for keeping the same time all year round.
In the sweet days of June when the perfectly good pre-7:00 AM sunlight shines on completely wasted, Saskie residents are firmly ensconced in their snug and smug beds content in the knowledge that TIME DOES NOT CHANGE in Saskatchewan.
We don’t need Daylight Saving Time in Saskatchewan. We know that cutting a foot off a 24 foot board and nailing it on the other end does not change the length of the board.
And really, we don’t need to save daylight, there’s enough for everybody.
Question: What do you do with the daylight after you’ve ”saved” it?
There are still some folks around who believe that they have to get up earlier in Saskatchewan than they they would have to in Manitoba! I do recall one of our neighbours (1966) who said that his hens weren’t laying as much after PM Ross Thatcher got rid of the time change.
Saskatchewan–We take a lickin’ and keep on tickin’
In Saskatchewan we actually do change time twice per year; in the winter we go on Winnipeg time, and in the summer we go on Calgary time.
The comments by plainzfyre and glasnost are unrelated to the fact that more sunlight in the evening would benefit every citizen of the province whether they golf or not.
The savings in electricity alone would make the move beneficial. Businesses shipping to other areas wouldn’t require walls covered in clocks because they would soon learn that the time differential stays the same year round thereby joining the modern world of international commerce.
Sure, the energy saving myth.
Got any real numbers? For Canada .
What about the accident rate?
Even those assholes at workers comp acknowledge an up tick in accidents at daylight savings changeover.
I suspect a loss of productivity as well.
Well I could just as easily ask you for your numbers on accident rates and productivity.
I don’t know which side of the province you live but in the Yorkton area because we are on the same time as towns 1000 miles to the west we have a significant lack of sunlight in the summer evenings. Do you understand the nature of the problems encountered trying to organize outdoor activities when the sun sets so early?
Do you see why companies would be interested in simplifying the business they conduct with companies in adjacent jurisdictions?