[wholinator2]

Well i mean, why stop there. We could alter the time of every clock every day by milliseconds or seconds, to keep perfect track of the solar timing. Better yet we could just trash the clock all together and decide to care about the things that got done rather than the exact time spent on it. This is probably not sarcasm

[taeric]

If we could easily change the duration of a second, I'd see little argument for why we wouldn't do that. Some of these solutions are easier than others.

Amusingly, these difficulties aren't static, either. Easy to argue that before rail and modern time pieces, what you are talking about is exactly what happened when people were using solar clocks.