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:: You can thank the Babylonians and their base 60 number system for both modern time divisions AND the system of degrees. It's been argued (not sure if proven) that the reason for that was exactly as agent muffin said: It's highly divisible to common fractions of 1/2, 1/3, 1/4, 1/5, and 1/6, which coordinates well with regular polygons up to the largest that tiles a plane. Personally I think it came about the other way around (multiples of 3/4/5) but semantically it's the same - [[Special:Contributions/172.68.2.93|172.68.2.93]] 20:51, 26 October 2023 (UTC) | :: You can thank the Babylonians and their base 60 number system for both modern time divisions AND the system of degrees. It's been argued (not sure if proven) that the reason for that was exactly as agent muffin said: It's highly divisible to common fractions of 1/2, 1/3, 1/4, 1/5, and 1/6, which coordinates well with regular polygons up to the largest that tiles a plane. Personally I think it came about the other way around (multiples of 3/4/5) but semantically it's the same - [[Special:Contributions/172.68.2.93|172.68.2.93]] 20:51, 26 October 2023 (UTC) | ||
: I also haven't changed most of my clocks for DST in years. Most of them change themselves; my digital watch, kitchen wall clock and living room mantelpiece clock are radio-controlled, while my computers and iPad use NTP. Even my central heating system adjusts itself, but it doesn't use an external time source, so while it needs manual adjustment, it's not for DST. That just leaves my car, my oven and my telephone, none of which use an external time source so need regular adjustments anyway (or they would if I actually used them to tell the time). --[[Special:Contributions/172.69.43.241|172.69.43.241]] 10:27, 27 October 2023 (UTC) | : I also haven't changed most of my clocks for DST in years. Most of them change themselves; my digital watch, kitchen wall clock and living room mantelpiece clock are radio-controlled, while my computers and iPad use NTP. Even my central heating system adjusts itself, but it doesn't use an external time source, so while it needs manual adjustment, it's not for DST. That just leaves my car, my oven and my telephone, none of which use an external time source so need regular adjustments anyway (or they would if I actually used them to tell the time). --[[Special:Contributions/172.69.43.241|172.69.43.241]] 10:27, 27 October 2023 (UTC) | ||
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A bit of a seasonal puff-piece 'news article', perhaps, but [https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-67243110 a brief BBC item about the upcoming change] might appeal to those reading this. And at least it isn't about death and destruction in Ukraine, Israel/Gaza or Maine (or Musk calling people racists)... [[Special:Contributions/172.69.43.241|172.69.43.241]] 01:39, 28 October 2023 (UTC) | A bit of a seasonal puff-piece 'news article', perhaps, but [https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-67243110 a brief BBC item about the upcoming change] might appeal to those reading this. And at least it isn't about death and destruction in Ukraine, Israel/Gaza or Maine (or Musk calling people racists)... [[Special:Contributions/172.69.43.241|172.69.43.241]] 01:39, 28 October 2023 (UTC) |