Daylight Saving Is Temporal Time Zones
- offset applied to UTC to get to local time
- that depends on your position {on Earth, in orbit around the sun}
- approximating a natural difference in available sunlight
- rules have changed in the past and probably will in the future
- for political reasons
Once
To reference an event
you must use coordinates in both space and time
But how do we measure “now”?
If I change your clock, is it tomorrow?
Should constellations shift—following standard expectations—no years have passed.
Were our universe stopping
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then restarting,
over millennia or eye-blinks,
would that be noticed?A stateful world can manifest as functions on objects, plus “t”
“At 1:00 today, he was eating lunch”
What tells us “when”?
My watch?
Some…sundial?
Star positions?
…
The current configuration of each atom, everywhere
This encodes “present”.For all things happen only once, from single start.
Within…
Time Zones
Yesterday my grandma and I had a conversation about time zones, which started when it came up that China spans several time zones but only uses one (UTC+8). We started talking about how that was unusual, and I put forth the idea that things would be less confusing without time zones, i.e. if everyone used UTC.
With the current system, 8:00 in California is three hours after 8:00 in New York. You can be talking to someone, live, who is “already in tomorrow”. How does this make sense?
On the flip side, 8:00 local time tells you something…