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xkcd #2846: Daylight Saving Choice (imgs.xkcd.com)

submitted 11 months ago by randomaccount43543 to c/xkcd

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I average out the spring and fall changes and just set my clocks 39 minutes ahead year-round.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

Let's jump straight to decimal time then.

1^h^23^m^45^s^ is 1 decimal hour, 23 decimal minutes, and 45 decimal seconds, or 1.2345 decimal hours, or 123.45 decimal minutes or 12345 decimal seconds; 3 hours is 300 minutes or 30,000 seconds. This property also makes it straightforward to represent a timestamp as a fractional day, so that 2023-10-26.54321 can be interpreted as five decimal hours and 43 decimal minutes and 21 decimal seconds after the start of that day, or a fraction of 0.54321 (54.321%) through that day (which is shortly after traditional 13:00)