Idea: A clock that takes the time of daylight and divides it up into twelve sections, let's call them "bells", and they are shorter in winter and longer in summer. In the night, same idea, let's call them "watches" and they are longer in winter, shorter in summer.
Trains and timed meds and stuff would still need to run on UTC, but imagine being able to organise your day to the length of daylight/darkness.
Most people would still need different routines in winter and summer but this is a feature, not a bug.
If you think of better names for the bells and watches then let me know, I'm borrowing from nautical terminology here.
Also does anyone want to program this? Even as a website where I could input my location by city, it would be super useful. Even going strictly by sunrise/sunset and ignoring concepts like dusk, it would be helpful.
@noelle @artsyhonker @amphetamine@slime.global THAT'S WHO IT WAS
I remembered that the traditional japanese system used something like this 'cause I've seen some neat clocks that do it but I knew there was another example and couldn't remember who it was
@troubleMoney hey sam do you have any reading material on the Japanese time system? I've never heard of it and I'm super interested :D
@InspectorCaracal honestly not much, it's an obscure topic even for me
there's this website I found which has a lot of info about wadokei (the mechanical clocks that were developed that use this system) https://wadokei.org/
the seiko museum also has a couple of articles https://museum.seiko.co.jp/en/knowledge/relation_07/ https://museum.seiko.co.jp/en/knowledge/relation_16/
@troubleMoney yaaay thank you