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Worst is UTC vs GMT (i.ibb.co)

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[–] [email protected] 38 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

It could have been worse. The romans had the day divided into 24 hours, like we do, but the hours varied in length so that from sunrise to sunset, you would always have 12 hours.

Imagine if that was the agreed upon time system, and we had to program that into computers.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 5 months ago

It’s called temporal hour. Many cultures around the world had such a time system. Like in Japan they made clocks and watches that could tell temporal hours called wadokei.