Shaz77
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From 15.02 today the days get longer so we are heading back to the summer.
3.02pm 21/12/25
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lustyd
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We have to start winter first!
capnsensible
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Looking forward to that, outside temperature down to 21c today.
Shaz77
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Don't think you have quite grasped it. Instead of the Sun slowly moving further into the southern hemisphere it is now moving towards the northern hemisphere. longer days etc etc
Minerva
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She has a long way to travel, but Summer has turned round and is now coming back to us!
lustyd
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I did, just pointing out that winter is only now starting so we’re as far from summer as we were yesterday. Further in fact, as summer was 3 months ago and doesn’t start for 6
LittleSister
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But it's still staying dark until yet later in the morning until about the end of the month! (Though it did start get dark later in the afternoon (albeit very slightly) some days ago.
Which gets me thinking, now that almost everyone has electronic clocks and GPS, freeing us from the constraints of primitive clockwork, we could not only do away with mean time and precisely aligning our clocks with the solar system throughout the year, but revert to proper local time instead of blanket time zones. Anyone going to join my campaign?
Blueboatman
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Well look at the time.
Yesssss
A modest tincture later I think . Sloe gin, well aged and surprisingly innocuous tasting iirc from last year
Yesssss
A modest tincture later I think . Sloe gin, well aged and surprisingly innocuous tasting iirc from last year
Biggles Wader
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Still pretty dark here. How long do I have to wait?Well look at the time.
Yesssss
A modest tincture later I think . Sloe gin, well aged and surprisingly innocuous tasting iirc from last year
veshengro
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Funniest Press photo I've seen for ages, all the 'Selfies' being taken at Stonehenge this morning. It's the place to be seen don'tcha know? A bit like Glastonbury.. 
LittleSister
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Funniest Press photo I've seen for ages, all the 'Selfies' being taken at Stonehenge this morning. It's the place to be seen don'tcha know? A bit like Glastonbury..
I was there for dawn on midsummer's day sometime early seventies (as was, rather more prominently, Simon Dee - remember him? - plus a few druids). It's not recorded in photographs (quite possibly a blessing), but only in an electro-chemical memory blob rather prone to losses and distortions.
In those days Stonehenge wasn't fenced off (if I recall correctly).
Fr J Hackett
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Don't you think the railways and their timetables to be difficult enough to navigate.But it's still staying dark until yet later in the morning until about the end of the month! (Though it did start get dark later in the afternoon (albeit very slightly) some days ago.
Which gets me thinking, now that almost everyone has electronic clocks and GPS, freeing us from the constraints of primitive clockwork, we could not only do away with mean time and precisely aligning our clocks with the solar system throughout the year, but revert to proper local time instead of blanket time zones. Anyone going to join my campaign?
lustyd
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That just took me down a ridiculous rabbit hole trying to find an app for my watch to show true solar time
LittleSister
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ithet
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I have actually wondered the opposite. It just seems an accident of history that we use a sort of local time (country/region based) for everyday use rather than a fixed worldwide time base such as GMT. It's all just a number anyway, one would be just as used to the idea that say, work stated at time x somewhere in the world, and time y somewhere else - in the same way that we now are used to adjusting our watches from X to y.But it's still staying dark until yet later in the morning until about the end of the month! (Though it did start get dark later in the afternoon (albeit very slightly) some days ago.
Which gets me thinking, now that almost everyone has electronic clocks and GPS, freeing us from the constraints of primitive clockwork, we could not only do away with mean time and precisely aligning our clocks with the solar system throughout the year, but revert to proper local time instead of blanket time zones. Anyone going to join my campaign?
lustyd
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Realistically the world does run on UTC these days, it’s just the presentation layer that adjusts for people. Even 20 years ago people were setting up servers with local time and it caused all sorts of chaos. Whether we’ll ever see the local time element disappear I’d doubt but we are closer than we’ve ever been
LittleSister
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Like the rest of our technology, culture, society and DNA, then?
We could call it Universal Time, or UT for short, and use it for airlines, the military and other high tech use for starters.
Oh, hang on . . .
Alan S
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Popped the cork on the prosecco* at exactly 1502 UTC. Roll on summer!
* Her ladyship's choice, I'll open the Talisker later ; )
* Her ladyship's choice, I'll open the Talisker later ; )
Minerva
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Nah, it’d never catch on.Like the rest of our technology, culture, society and DNA, then?
We could call it Universal Time, or UT for short, and use it for airlines, the military and other high tech use for starters.
Oh, hang on . . .
Chiara’s slave
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And that is why we have co ordinated time in UK. IK Brunel is responsible.
