• lugal
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    9 months ago

    Is the idea to have longers days or shorter hours? Eitherway: why?

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      Longer days. Which kind of works in an area where the sun doesn’t rise all winter and doesn’t set all summer. Until you have to consider having to work with anyone else. Not only do you have timezone offsets that change every day, you get date offsets. After less than a month, you’re already two days off from the rest of the world.

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        9 months ago

        Remindes me of Mars. Never been there but the researchers who controlled the rovers had Mars time which is slightly off but very slidely. And since there were several rovers ad once, each team, or rather each floor, had their own time zone.

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        9 months ago

        Thanks now I can visualize how that would work, it’s actually pretty cool. And the reasons is good, i can see myself doing tourism in a place like that for this reason.

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        9 months ago

        Which kind of works

        I guess… If they really don’t care about time of day coinciding with the placement of the sun. Ever. Unless they’re only running 26h days summer and winter but 24 hour days during spring and fall…? This would be FUN!

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      The funny part is 24 and 60 are already great numbers to base your time system on. They’re both very divisible which means you can divide up the day or hour into halves, thirds, and quarters without dealing with fractional time periods. It would remove a practical aspect of time keeping to no benefit.

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        9 months ago

        So maybe divide the 26h day into 24 time units or make the day not 26h but 60h