Daylight

Long ago Wayne Green  in his 73 Magazine  wrote about bringing time  into metric 
format, putting 100 seconds in a minute, 100 minutes into an hour, and 100 hours 
into a day.  I thought it was absurd, but since then, I've been having ideas.

Today is 090305 and we have reverted from standard to saving time.  Every year I 
am struck by the ease at which the "so-called" atomic clocks adjust their  time.  
Of course there  is nothing atomic  about them, they  are just radio  controlled 
from WWV and of course WWV has an atomic base for it's clock.

In my house we have four WWV clocks and 6 (counting the car) that are not  radio 
controlled.   I do believe we could get  by very comfortably on four WWV clocks, 
if  not  a couple  more could  be purchased  making our  household entirely  WWV 
clocks. And put the "regular" clocks in the landfill.*

I wonder if the average citizen might be persuaded to do the same ?

Every Spring we lose an hour of sleep; I don't really appreciate it.

Throughout the year  the sun rises  and sets at  slightly different times  every 
day.  During the equinox this can vary as much as two minutes a day, but  during 
the  summer  and  winter  solstice, the  time changes  by as  little as  a small 
fraction of a second.

In any event, rather  than enduring an hour  change, we could have  many changes 
that would be imperceptible.   Just have WWV reset  our clocks daily instead  of 
twice a year.

What time should we reset them to ?

We could use the current system of taking the center of each time zone and  make 
it  high noon.  By  doing this the sun  will behave much as  it does now, except 
there will be no hour jumps twice a year.  I suppose this might be the choice of 
the unimaginative.

Others could select a more adventurous system.

For example we could make the sun rise at 6AM every day, or we could enjoy  long 
summer evenings all year round making it set at 9PM.

We might decide these are both extremes and introduce algorithms such as the sun 
will never set before 5PM and will never rise later than 8AM.

Other tantalizing possibilities abound.  We could reset the clocks every  minute 
and the sun would rise  and set every day at  6AM and 6PM.  We would  be playing 
with how many seconds are in a minute with this idea.

I think you can see the possibilities are legion !

Let me know what ideas  this  article  gives  you  and  drop  me  an  e-mail  at 
http://www.radions.net/spamfltr.htm  I would love to hear your thoughts.

* By the way, I have an idea for all the old outdated clocks.  They could be set 
to Coordinated Universal Time  (UTC)  and  we would then have a way  to schedule 
long distance calls to any point on the globe.  I don't want to get too far into 
this, but it could be quite an improvement over the local times we use now.

TR, WB6TMY