Resolved: time zones, leap years, leap seconds, and solar timekeeping should be abolished

[LSLGuy]

I’m not a night owl. Although it seems to me that if a night owl wanted to live @thorny_locust style, a “clock” of any sort is still irrelevant.

Sleepy? Go to bed. Alert? Get up & do stuff. Hungry? Eat.

Most of us manage our other bodily functions that way: when the urge strikes, satisfy it / yield to it.

Running our sleeping, waking, eating, and other activities according to a similarly simple: “If you feel like doing it now, then do it now, no matter what ‘it’ is” rule would probably be a lot healthier for all of us. It’s what I’m drifting towards as work winds down.

[carrps]

After I retired, I found I was only eating two meals a day, for example. I’m no longer slotted into mealtimes that are more-or-less set up by someone else.

[Jasmine]

May I ask what’s so horrible about those things that they should be abolished in the first place?

@HMS_Irruncible

The benefits are obvious, but to state them, humanity wastes a great deal of time, effort, and expense making sure our spinny dials match the sun because this is how we’ve done it for centuries.

Can you elaborate because I’m not seeing a huge issue here. It isn’t “obvious” to me at all.

[Odesio]

@TriPolar

If you did live like that then sometimes you’d lose track of what time it feels like and a nice subjective time clock would be really useful. I’m a night owl so I need something that works well in the dark. I’ve found sundials are highly inaccurate when illuminated by flashlight.

It really depends on where you’re standing.

[LSLGuy]

Don’t forget to close one eye to reduce parallax error.

[lum_s_husband]

Try closing both to eliminate it completely.

[k9bfriender]

And you should be able to get reasonable accuracy as long as you account for how long the Sun’s been down.