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==Explanation== | ==Explanation== | ||
− | + | {{w|Daylight Saving Time}}, in which clocks in the United States are turned an hour forward, has recently occurred at the time of this comic in the United States. It is frequently complained about due to having been invented for a no-longer-relevant cause. One of many complaints about this is that it will still "feel" like 5am at 6, or whatever other case. A few days before this comic went up, the United States Senate passed the {{w|Sunshine Protection Act}}, which would permanently abolish the biannual daylight savings adjustment, setting (what was) daylight savings time as the default time zone for all but a handful of states and territories. | |
− | {{w|Daylight Saving Time}}, | + | [[Randall]], jumping on this topic, proposes a system that allows everybody to say when it "feels" like 9am, and then the median 9am will become the real 9am. This happens every day. As the title text points out, this would be chaotic and, to put it bluntly, awful{{citation needed}}. |
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− | [[Randall]], jumping on this topic, proposes a system that allows everybody to say when it "feels" like | ||
Presumably the times indicated on this diagram are as the clocks in this time zone would indicate, as opposed to an "ordinary" reference time. | Presumably the times indicated on this diagram are as the clocks in this time zone would indicate, as opposed to an "ordinary" reference time. | ||
− | + | Although the hours between midnight and 9 am are labeled as "longer" (which we can assume means each would take longer than an hour of ordinary time to pass) the effect on the remaining hours is left unstated. If we assume that the remaining hours pass at the usual rate then this would suggest that midnight would come sooner or later than normal and hence the next vote would occur sooner or later respectively. This implies the time in this time zone could drift further than a day (or even multiple days) from existing time-zones which could be what is meant by "feedback", "chaos" and the effect on weekdays mentioned in the title text. | |
− | + | ==Transcript== | |
+ | {{incomplete transcript|Do NOT delete this tag too soon.}} | ||
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:Proposal: Consensus Time | :Proposal: Consensus Time | ||
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− | :[A scatterplot of 57 dots appears below the hashmarks, indicating the distribution of when participants pushed the "9 AM" button. The most extreme outliers are at roughly 3AM and 9PM, but they most densely cluster around a vertical dotted line labelled "Median" at approximately 11:15AM, | + | :[A scatterplot of 57 dots appears below the hashmarks, indicating the distribution of when participants pushed the "9 AM" button. The most extreme outliers are at roughly 3AM and 9PM, but they most densely cluster around a vertical dotted line labelled "Median" at approximately 11:15AM, interupted as it passes through the main mass of dots at roughly the position of the 29th plotted dot from either end.] |
:[Megan, facing to the left, and Cueball, facing to the right, each hold a handheld device. The devices are too small to see clearly but are making sounds, implying that each of them has just pressed the "9 AM" button.] | :[Megan, facing to the left, and Cueball, facing to the right, each hold a handheld device. The devices are too small to see clearly but are making sounds, implying that each of them has just pressed the "9 AM" button.] | ||
:Beep | :Beep | ||
:Beep | :Beep | ||
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{{comic discussion}} | {{comic discussion}} | ||
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[[Category:Comics featuring Cueball]] | [[Category:Comics featuring Cueball]] | ||
[[Category:Comics featuring Megan]] | [[Category:Comics featuring Megan]] |