Re: The English/French counting system (WAS: number systems from conlangs)

Mark J. Reed scripsit:

> Who cares if the sun is at
> high noon at 0600 in the summer and 0700 in the winter instead of
> at 1200 year round?
The point of DST/summer time is to get people to get up earlier during
the summer, so that the amount of electricity used in the evening is
reduced -- people get home while the sun still shines, and so on.
There's a fundamental asymmetry between dawn and dusk: we get up fairly
soon after dawn, but stay up many, many hours after dusk.

It's easier to tell everyone to change their clocks than it is to make
people get up/start work an hour earlier.

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