[wtbob]

You know, given that we have computers to perform the calculations, my own mad dream is to return to solar hours: twelve hours from sunrise to sunset, and twelve from sunset to sunrise. Thus summer hours would be longer and winter days would be shorter. Ditto minutes and seconds.

Science would of course need to have a standardised second almost always different from the current second, but that's no different from having a standardised temperature and pressure almost always different from the current temperature and pressure.

[juliangregorian]

What on earth do you see the benefit of this as?

[wtbob]

My theory is that living according to the sun is more natural and consequently more pleasant than living according to a metronome.