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		tdeck on Aug 29, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: American Academy of Sleep Medicine calls for elimi... "Natural local time " hasn't been the status quo for over 100 years. Just look at this map: https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2014/02/how-wrong-is-you...

waterhouse on Aug 29, 2020 | [–]

I'll grant that hour-granularity time zones are pragmatically useful. But why make the difference from "noon = solar noon" any worse than it needs to be?

aidenn0 on Aug 29, 2020 | [–]

Blog slate linked to isn't live any more; here's a direct link to the larger map via archive.org:

https://web.archive.org/web/20150304212105/http://blog.poorm...

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