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by Slightly less anonymous on November 4th, 2009
what?
aside from timezones, most of the world revolves around light. So where the sun rises earlier, days start earlier and end earlier. Where the sun rises later, get the picture? Plus people work day shifts and night shifts and all sorts of shifts. there are industrial societies and agrarian societies and with international business, people wake up and work all sorts of weird hours so that they are awake when their business partners on the other side of the world are awake
there isn't even data on lots of this stuff, so how are we supposed to take the non-existent data, average it, compensate for time zones and everything
or do you just want us to make up a random number?
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What do time zones have to do with the price of eggs? If you usually sleep at 11pm and somebody who lives on the other side of the world sleeps at 11pm what time zone you're in is irrelevant.
by Lucky_Marty on November 9th, 2009
if it's 11pm for you, it's not for someone on the other side of the world. if you poll everybody and ask when they wake and sleep, timezones will have an effect. You can travel through a state in the US for example and go through one town which doesn't observe daylight savings, and therefore the time is an hour different then everywhere around it. so, even if everyone in that town wakes up at the exact same moment as everyone in the surrounding towns, they'd say they woke up at different times. that's just one in a thousand ways that time zones screw things up.
besides, my first line was "aside from timezones"--meaning aside from the changes in data that you would get caused by timezones and different places observing this or that, you have all of these other factors to consider.
by Slightly less anonymous on November 9th, 2009
day cycles are different everywhere on earth. so are night cycles. and within each of those societies there are people who get up at different times during the cycle, go to bed during different times during the cycle. people get up and go to bed at every time. not just at one time, and i doubt that there's a world wide prevalent time, though there may be a world wide prevalent pattern in relation to the sun, but even so, I wouldn't know how to find it
by Slightly less anonymous on November 9th, 2009