[Magdalen] Time is -- uh ....

[James Oppenheimer-Crawford]

It would be child's play to make a clock that lost twenty seconds a day --
and a clock that gained twenty seconds a day. Well, child's play if your
daddy was a skilled clockmaker, I guess. You would just have to remember to
switch clocks, or if someone made one clock that did both, flip the switch
from one to the other.

We could also let every city revert to sun time. The mayor's sundial would
be authoritative for the city.

All transportation would use GMT.

God help us if we find life on another planet. We would have a heck of a
time fitting out time systems together....

James W. Oppenheimer-Crawford
*“A life is like a garden. Perfect moments can be had, but not preserved,
except in memory. LLAP**”  -- *Leonard Nimoy

On Mon, Nov 2, 2015 at 12:48 AM, Mahoney, W. Michael <wmmah at stoneledge.net>
wrote:

> On Sun, Nov 1, 2015 at 9:01 AM, Charles Wohlers <
> charles.wohlers at verizon.net
> > wrote:
>
> > There have been a couple of columns in the Boston Globe advocating for
> New
> > England to switch to the Atlantic time zone - meaning, in effect, DST all
> > year long.
>
>
> What we should do is simple.
>
> From November thru March, bump the clock forward 20 seconds each day.
> Then, from April thru October, bump the clock backward 20 seconds each day.
>
>
> Nobody would notice the changing time and the clock manufacturers would
> have a wonderful opportunity to sell clocks.
>
> You read it here first.
>
> Another possibility is also simple:  tell people that they can set their
> work, school, and other hours whenever the hell they want and let the chips
> fall.
>
> Mike M.
>