Since daylight occurs at highly variable times this is the most cockeyed idea I have seen yet. Here in Helsinki in the summertime the sun barely sets at the equinox and in the winter it comes up around 9 am. And it sets around 4 pm.

Still a more definite indication of day and night, even if it is off by a couple of hours during some seasons in more isolated parts of the world, wouldn't it still be more accurate than six hours.

Your inability to perceive how violently unworkable this idea is should be an indication of how out of whack your basic thinking process is. It seems to me to be pathological.

"Violently unworkable", "pathological"...sounds like somebody woke up on the wrong side of the bed. As for workable, it would only take deciding on a date and "time" to make a acknowledged change of reference, much like daylight savings time.

Each day as they lengthen or shorten? Totally nuts.

Some of us don't live in a modern society founded on reason. I happen to live in a country that stages military occupations in other countries on a whim. That cheap shot at the US aside, I agree with you that our current system is obscure... but it's all relative. Why does the day starting at zero make any more sense than it does starting at seven if it always starts around seven?

If you were to suggest we exactly calculate the length of a year and divide that by factors of ten to create new increments of time (metric time), then it would make sense to start at zero.

The idea of converting to metric intrigues me and I commend the out of the box thinking (metric should reasonbly be the "standard" unit of measurement). However the infrastructure is already in place for a 24hr day. The time to change would have to be during one of the equinoxes, the question is do we want to skip 6 hours or add 6 hours.

Metric standard for time is the second. Not only does the sun not rise at the same time every day, the Earth alternately bulges and relaxes on account of the moon and other cosmic tidal forces. Furthermore, the Earth adds about .002 seconds per day to its time of rotation. A lunar month is 27 days.

What am I saying? An arbitrary constant trumps science, for once, on account of our biology (your body is on a 25hr clock, not 24) and our society for which the standard time is that which corresponds to the opening and closing of the NYSE.

This idea is so amazingly poorly conceived, and founded on such an illogical philosophical underpinning, and displays such an immense lack of critical thinking, that I can't even begin to talk about where it goes wrong. It's like asking me to build an opera house with a handful of hydrogen. Oh, God.

I guess my 6-day week (drop Wednesday) and a 6 week month (36 days) and a 10 month year (360 days) , with every Jan 1 being Monday (after a bonus week of 5 or 6 days to burn the spare days) looks pretty simple now.

Every October 22nd will be a Friday -- forever! And every other day/date is static, too.

No three-day week end, but a four-day work week. You can thank me later.

I just have to post this as a new idea, do we have a funny section here?

Despite the multiple variables that can affect when the physical light actually appears on the horizon, I am referring simply to the concept of having PM actually represent the time between sunset and sunrise. A full 24hr day is considered one day and one night, but it is still called a day. So lets have a conceptual agreement of 12hrs of daylight start at a conceptual daytime versus our current practice of saying midnight is the beginning of the day. Time may have originally been setup to represent the night and day more accurately, but due to the variables many of you have mentioned, and perhaps a meteor or two shifting the earths axis, we have wound up with this inverted representation of time.

I think every physical clock and wrist/pocket watch in the world would have to be thrown away (?) As a programmer, I LIKE IT! Makes Y2K seem like a little project.