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Unix Time and a Modest Proposal

50 点作者 tapan_jk5 个月前

14 条评论

perihelions5 个月前
The simplest solution is to uplift a polite portion of the Earth&#x27;s mass into an orbital habitation ring, and use a feedback controller to regulate the amounts being launched, to keep the rotational period stabilized (in accordance with conservation of angular momentum) at an integer ratio to the sidereal year.<p>And for the other challenge, to stabilize the variation of the the sidereal year (i.e. the gravities of Jupiter &amp;c. pulling the orbit slightly faster or slower), we simply schedule the launches at either the fore- (morning) or aft- (evening) ends.<p>To anyone sympathetic to my ideology, please consider using &quot;fore&quot;, &quot;aft&quot;, &quot;port&quot;, and &quot;starboard&quot; to refer to the morning, evening, day, and night quadrants of the clock.
VHRanger5 个月前
I agree, moving the earth&#x27;s axis with respect to the sun seems actually feasible compared to getting a standards body to agree on coordinated change.
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smitty1e5 个月前
The title refers to a 1729 Jonathan Swift essay, &quot;A Modest Proposal for Preventing the Children of Poor People from Being a Burthen to Their Parents or Country, and for Making Them Beneficial to the Publick&quot;[1].<p>As with the subject article, Swift&#x27;s work begins reasonably enough, and contains much great discussion before veering off wildly at the end.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;A_Modest_Proposal" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;A_Modest_Proposal</a>
3eb7988a16635 个月前
<p><pre><code> The ratio is around 365.2422. Calling it 365 is too crude. Julius Caesar said we should call it 365 1&#x2F;4, and that was good enough for a while. </code></pre> This is blowing my mind that thousands of years ago they were able to measure the orbits to this level of accuracy.
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s_tec5 个月前
This is an excellent idea! It would probably make the most sense to perform these adjustments on April 1.
emptiestplace5 个月前
Wish I&#x27;d known about Swift&#x27;s &#x27;A Modest Proposal&#x27; first - I came expecting practical Unix time insights, but found an attempt at satire in need of both editing and purpose.
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ncruces5 个月前
Leap seconds are about keeping 12pm synchronized with solar noon, not the length of the year?<p>This makes no sense:<p>&gt; … or not add leap seconds and allow the year to drift with respect to the day.
douglaswlance5 个月前
if we mobilized a whole-of-society effort to build millions of rocket engines and fired them year round, it&#x27;d only take a few hundred years to get this done
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devjab5 个月前
If we’re changing unix time we should probably do something about the year 2038 problem. It’ll not be nearly as fun as new years in 2000.
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Retr0id5 个月前
we could fix timezones too, by rearranging the continents (and the civilizations within them) into a narrow longitudinal strip
rzzzt5 个月前
Solar sails? Dyson sphere? Do we need to run in the same direction in a coordinated fashion?
dvh5 个月前
If you have problem with Unix time you are probably using it wrong. It is monotonically rising timer that increments every second. That&#x27;s it. It doesn&#x27;t care about leap second, leap years or any of the orbits.
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gavindean905 个月前
This is like an xkcd comic as a blog post
silvestrov5 个月前
Unix time should never have been a number of seconds.<p>It should be a structured of the iso datetime fields, like in &quot;struct tm&quot;, see <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;cplusplus.com&#x2F;reference&#x2F;ctime&#x2F;tm&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;cplusplus.com&#x2F;reference&#x2F;ctime&#x2F;tm&#x2F;</a>