A:
I had a really crazy thought this morning in the shower about Daylight Savings Time.
B:
Great.
A:
Yeah, for real. So the idea is this: what if, instead of moving time forward back and
B:
Clocks. We move clocks, not time.
A:
Sure, but if instead of moving them back and forth an hour twice a year
B:
We moved them a little bit each day?
A:
AND, and, we move them such that the sun rises and sets at the same time every day!
B:
You can't just move them like that, the length of the day would need to change, too.
A:
Yeah! Crazy, huh?
B:
I mean
A:
Like, we would just decide or whatever that the sun rises at 7:30 and set at 6:30 every day.
B:
So the sun's only up 11 hours a day? Should probably be 12.
A:
Well, seven to seven then.
B:
What about when it's winter, and the sun's only up for like 6 hours?
A:
Six OLD hours.
B:
Whatever.
A:
Well, you know, the minutes would just go faster to make up for it. But only when the sun is up! And then, after 7:00 pm, the minutes would have to slow down again! Crazy!
B:
But the length of the day varies with your latitude. Would minutes on the equator be different than minutes in Chicago?
A:
I guess! I didn't even think of that part! I tell you, this idea just keeps getting crazier and crazier!
B:
It's not crazy, it's just dumb. I assume that seconds would scale too?
A:
Ehh.... no. That would be toooo crazy! So, seconds would be just like they are now, but you know, minutes would have more or less than 60 seconds.
B:
What about Olympic records? You would have to convert them all around all the time.
A:
No you wouldn't! You would just record them all in seconds.
B:
Ok. Cause I was wondering how you would do speed limits if the length of an hour changed, but you could just do those in seconds too.
A:
Yeah, if you didn't mind counting Miles per 3600 seconds! Cause that would be really fun to figure out, wouldn't it? "Oh, let me see, officer, let me just get out my slide rule, and my, my, my abacus or whatever to do these facts and figures to prove that I wasn't speeding because technically there are 3,600 seconds in an hour and when you divide by the square root of the hypotenuse and "
B:
I'm not defending this stupid idea! Don't make fun of me for playing along! It doesn't work anyway, because the number of minutes in a hour would change.
A:
No, they wouldn't.
B:
Well, the seconds in a minute does, then, so it's not just sixty by sixty anymore, it would vary.
A:
Well, regardless. Pretty crazy idea, huh?
B:
It's not crazy, it's just terrible.
A:
I think
B:
You can't just consider ridiculously terrible ideas, point out obvious problems with them, and then think you imagined some sort of crazy idea or societal implication or whatever. "Wouldn't it be crazy if on even days we drove on the right side of the road, and on odd days we drove on the left?" "I guess, but it'd certainly be completely stupid!"
A:
But it goes really deep! Shows would even have to change their length! A Seinfeld rerun that was supposed to be shown in the winter would be too long when shown in the summer!
B:
THAT'S WHY WE DON'T DO IT THAT WAY!