Natural Time (actual time)

Scientific fact.  Not social convention.

03/14/2021
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Choosing between natural time and false time as 
the permanent clock system has nothing whatsoever 
to do with the balance between morning and evening 
lightness or darkness.

Public and private entities set their hours of 
operation as they see fit, which is all that's 
needed to create any particular balance between 
morning and evening lightness or darkness.

In fact, public and private entities regularly fiddle 
with their hours of operation, regardless of whether 
false time or actual time is in effect.  If you change 
the clocks, nothing prevents them from changing their 
hours of operation, nullifying your change.


 Why would we want to set a baseline for them
 to work with that is purposely one hour off.


For that very same reason, the question as to whether 
actual time or false time ought to be the permanent 
clock system has nothing whatsoever to do with anyone's 
health.

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The time of day is not a social convention.  There 
is nothing arbitrary about how the 24-hour clock was 
established.

It's one thing to have never given it any thought.
But to those who try to defend false time I say:
If we don't know what we're talking about, then we 
need to sit on our hands.

The earth rotates on its axis..

..and the time of day is a scientific fact for the 
same reason that the earth's rotation relative to 
the sun is a scientific fact.

The sun is precisely midway between sunrise and 
sunset, time-wise and arc-length-wise, when at its 
highest position, every day of the year, everywhere 
on Earth.   That is why high noon is 12 o'clock.
And it is why midday is 12 o'clock.  

And it is why natural time is the only rational 
target within the constraints of geo-political 
boundaries.  Such boundaries might introduce some 
error, as will the width of a time zone.

Adding error to any such error cannot be justified.

There's no justification for calling high noon 1:00,
or for calling any other hour of the day anything other
than what it is.

My clocks show the correct time and I can't bring 
myself to communicate the time incorrectly.

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I can see the elementary school children being told 
by their teachers that there are 24 hours in a day 
and that midday is 1:00.  All the children will know 
that 24 divided by 2 equals 12, and they will all 
think that adults must have utterly checked out.







 The correct time, every day of the year:

 Correct time in Minneapolis

 
 
 

 R Luebeck  2021