[time-nuts] Time-zones and World time..

[Thomas A. Frank]

>> I would say it's very unlikely to happen.  People tend to prefer the
>> time in their area to match up with the day.  So, having the sun  
>> come up
>> at 7pm wouldn't suit a lot of people.
>
> But people would get used to it after a while, maybe a generation, and
> whose to say that the sun should come up at 7am, it's really just an
> arbitrary concept.


In his book "100 Days" (about the 1982 war in the Falklands), Admiral  
Woodward points out that the British forces kept their clocks set to  
Greenwich Time, and shifted their days to match.

Which is to say that they still had breakfast right before dawn, but  
the clock might have said 1000 hours, and dinner might have been  
right after sunset (the Argentine Air Force being limited to daylight  
operations), when the clock might have indicted 2200 hours.

So the numbers on the clock were indeed considered arbitrary; they  
still sync'd life to the sun (for obvious reasons).

It was also helpful, in as much as the higher-ups back in the UK were  
on Greenwich time, so Woodward could stay in sync with their comings  
and goings.

Interesting book, by the way.

Tom Frank