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World’s timekeepers upend how they adjust time to avoid catastrophic ‘negative second’ (www.nature.com)
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[–] 3 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Just pointing out that plenty of places shift their time by an hour twice a year already. It's already in our capability to do this.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 day ago (1 child)

    That's part of the problem, an additional one hour shift exacerbates that issue. Like you end up in the situation where you set the clock back to take advantage of more daylight, but then it's still dark, so you haven't achieved anything.

    I don't know, this "solution" is just kicking the can down the road - which isn't a solution.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 day ago*

    So just make a single shift in the next few hundred years when it has gotten bad enough to warent it.

    Say we are an hour behind local noon, shift your timezone +1 hour and leave it. You don't even need to get the world to agree, each area is free to set their own relative time.

    Sure the UTC noon will be somewhere west of Greenwich, but who cares. That was always an arbitrary point.

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