• esa@discuss.tchncs.de
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    3
    arrow-down
    3
    ·
    4 days ago

    Sundials haven’t been relevant for a long time. We use network time these days, calibrated against UTC (and possibly represented as Unix time).

    Personally I’d likely think it was neat to switch to metric time (ten hours per nychthemeron), or kiloseconds (87.6 in a nychthemeron), or even swatch @beat (1000 per nychthemeron).

    Somewhat related, the English word for døgn (nychthemeron) is such a mouthful.

    • 4am@lemmy.zip
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      4
      arrow-down
      4
      ·
      3 days ago

      Listen it’s fine to be a tech bro but you need to get out more and realize that what is convenient for your Docker swarm doesn’t work when humans are involved.

      Get corporate to let you out of the engineer cave

      • esa@discuss.tchncs.de
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        3
        arrow-down
        2
        ·
        3 days ago

        I’m very aware of what it means to be human, especially every time the daylight savings nonsense changes. But what the number on the alarm clock says when I get up doesn’t mean jack shit as long as it’s the same actual time of day.

        A sundial that has the numbers changed around is still the same sundial, and that’s the point here.