>> I would say it's very unlikely to happen. People tend to prefer the >> time in their area to match up with the day. So, having the sun >> come up >> at 7pm wouldn't suit a lot of people. > > But people would get used to it after a while, maybe a generation, and > whose to say that the sun should come up at 7am, it's really just an > arbitrary concept.
In his book "100 Days" (about the 1982 war in the Falklands), Admiral Woodward points out that the British forces kept their clocks set to Greenwich Time, and shifted their days to match. Which is to say that they still had breakfast right before dawn, but the clock might have said 1000 hours, and dinner might have been right after sunset (the Argentine Air Force being limited to daylight operations), when the clock might have indicted 2200 hours. So the numbers on the clock were indeed considered arbitrary; they still sync'd life to the sun (for obvious reasons). It was also helpful, in as much as the higher-ups back in the UK were on Greenwich time, so Woodward could stay in sync with their comings and goings. Interesting book, by the way. Tom Frank _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.