Winter hours were short and summer hours were long, but always twelve hours of day light. Ah, the good old days.

Timezones and DST were implemented by train lobby and the dept of transportation. Like most laws, there was no referendum nor democratic vote. And today the people have voiced their opinion, and they don't want time changes. Democracies just don't seem to agree on the final permanent change and govt makes no decision.

Why not permanent standard time, ditching DST? Have states actively resisted permanent standard time or demand DST or procrastinating or heavily lobbied (by who?) or waiting for an AIPAC check?

If it's just a number, would you rather +/- 30 minutes solar correlation or always an hour error plus +/- 30 minute variability? BC is attempting to force the clock hands of California and neighbouring provinces and states. I hope the neighbours agree amongst themselves to standard timezones and force another final adjustment of BC back to standard.

What governments have imposed for a century is not evidence that "people obviously already didn't give a shit about high noon". I give a shit about high noon and at least we do know that the majority of people don't want their clocks jiggled about every six months. Most have never had an accurately meaningful solar high noon and don't know what we're missing. Likewise, the Gregorian calendar has little relation to the Sun and Moon, but I suspect most would appreciate a correlation (though harmonizing hundreds of extant lunisolar calendars (as China did and India tried) would be near impossible. Happy Ramadan btw).

Local solar time is impractical for scheduling. UTC would be least ambiguous but completely disconnected from the local noon. Timezones (in hourly blocks) were a reasonable practical compromise. DST is not.

You apparently don't care about the number. But many people do. Most reasonable are either global standard UTC or a timezone closest to mean solar time, aka "standard time" UTC-7.

PT (aka UTC-7, BC's permanent DST) will make solar noon approximately 13:00 every day of the year.

- Eastern BC (114W, Alberta border) solar noon: 12:20 - 12:52.
- Central BC (119-ish) mean seasonal solar noon: 12:54.
- Western BC (123W, Vancouver) solar noon: 12:56 - 13:28.

Desktop Linux had roughly 0.62% share of the Desktop in 2009, 0.7% in 2010, 1.0% by 2013. 2% in 2018. 3% in 2021. 4% 2023-2024, 5% 2025...

That's a 1.14 multiplier annually.

If it continues then 10% Desktop share in 2031 (90% Skynet), 15% by 2034, 20% in 2036, 30% by 2039, and 50% by 2043, and 100% by 2048.

A standard golf ball is 42.67 mm. Average distance from the Earth to the Moon is 384 400 km.

If we can see a 42.67 mm ball at 24 km, then can we see a 4.267 m ball at 2400 km and a 683 m ball on the Moon?

We read "40 moons". Presumably "the Moon as seen from Earth" or with more precision: about 7 degrees angular diameter or 6 degrees squared (I guess).

Then we learn "that you could spot a golf ball from 24 km". Which is very interesting. But can we return to our "Moon as seen from the Earth" reference? Could we see a golf ball on one of these "40 moons"? No. Could we see a person? Probably not. Could we see a golf course on the Moon?

Apparently math and numbers scare some people. Most prefer "teach me like I'm 5". Can we have both then, please?

You're saying something and saying something else. I could suggest outlining your thoughts, because I think there's an insight in there despite the noise.

Citizens United (2010), I suppose.

Might I suggest that you know your government is corrupt and perhaps you know that most or all politicians are corrupted. Believing in a right-left dichotomy is exactly what the powerful and rich want us to believe. They delight when we repeat their "divide and conquer" talking points and fight their artificial tribal war. Citizens United passed the Supreme Court 5-4 under Obama. Kaspersky was banned under Biden. Dems or "liberals" as one may categorize them are just as "fascist" but with a smile that appeals to some.

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