If the numbers don't matter, then why do the numbers 9 and 5 matter so much that we center the new clock on those rather than noon/midnight?
It's probably not going to be a harmful stupid, it's only a small stupid, but it's still stupid.
There will be no explaining this to kids a generation from now.
"Well you see way back, they had this even goofier system where everyone changed all their clocks twice a year...that was ultimately just silly so finally they eventually decided to clean that mess up and treat the clocks rationally. Except they still didn't. They had that DST system for some hundreds of years so we can look forward to the current slightly less dumb system for another 100 or so. It's dumb but it doesn't matter that much, it just annoys programmers and data graphers because the numbers are all off-center by 1 for no justifiable reason, and a little bit more annoying for anyone who knows they actually did go through the bother of making a sweeping disruptive change across the land explicitly to finally clean up this minor stpidity, and did this with it."
If the numbers don't matter, then why do the numbers 9 and 5 matter so much that we center the new clock on those rather than noon/midnight?
It's probably not going to be a harmful stupid, it's only a small stupid, but it's still stupid.
There will be no explaining this to kids a generation from now.
"Well you see way back, they had this even goofier system where everyone changed all their clocks twice a year...that was ultimately just silly so finally they eventually decided to clean that mess up and treat the clocks rationally. Except they still didn't. They had that DST system for some hundreds of years so we can look forward to the current slightly less dumb system for another 100 or so. It's dumb but it doesn't matter that much, it just annoys programmers and data graphers because the numbers are all off-center by 1 for no justifiable reason, and a little bit more annoying for anyone who knows they actually did go through the bother of making a sweeping disruptive change across the land explicitly to finally clean up this minor stpidity, and did this with it."