Not sure how this is any more or less arbitrary, or more helpful.
And at least you can plan “I need to be up in 6 hours” when you lay down instead of "I might have 6 and a half or 7 hours, but better plan on 6 just in case.
It’s just as arbitrary, just based on a different, variable, irregular, and unpredictable (unless everyone gets degrees in astronomy). It may be predictable by the math, but no one wants to do any of that math every day.
It’s nice because people intuit and talk about days as a contiguous daylight period followed by a contiguous nighttime period, when they aren’t having discussions about timekeeping. It’d be nice if we picked an arbitrary delineation that aligned to that.
Wrt doing math, realistically you could just pick an arbitrary day of the year as your reference and every day begins at a multiple of 24 hours from that. No math is needed.
I’m not looking for perfect alignment with local dawn in every location on the planet, I’m aiming for a calendar day that aligns with our intuition of the day/night cycle.
But more than that, I’m having a silly discussion about timekeeping.
Not sure how this is any more or less arbitrary, or more helpful.
And at least you can plan “I need to be up in 6 hours” when you lay down instead of "I might have 6 and a half or 7 hours, but better plan on 6 just in case.
It’s just as arbitrary, just based on a different, variable, irregular, and unpredictable (unless everyone gets degrees in astronomy). It may be predictable by the math, but no one wants to do any of that math every day.
It’s nice because people intuit and talk about days as a contiguous daylight period followed by a contiguous nighttime period, when they aren’t having discussions about timekeeping. It’d be nice if we picked an arbitrary delineation that aligned to that.
Wrt doing math, realistically you could just pick an arbitrary day of the year as your reference and every day begins at a multiple of 24 hours from that. No math is needed.
I’m not looking for perfect alignment with local dawn in every location on the planet, I’m aiming for a calendar day that aligns with our intuition of the day/night cycle.
But more than that, I’m having a silly discussion about timekeeping.