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Originally Posted by You Need a Thneed
Why does Solar noon have to align with 12pm on the clocks? Obviously our time is arbitrary.
As said by others, why wouldn’t we want solar noon closer to the middle of the time we are actually awake?
For most people that well after 12 noon. Well after 2pm for me, probably closer to 3 pm.
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Because ‘noon’ would be different for everyone, and then it would have to be tied to something arbitrary and not rooted in anything. At least ‘noon’ now is tied to something (fairly) consistent across people. It doesn’t matter in the slightest whether you work 6-6 or 9-5 or 1-9. The ‘time we are actually awake’ is a bizarre standard.