The day should start at like… Equatorial dawn or something.

  • PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.caOP
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    18 hours ago

    Right.

    But 00:01 is clearly still night. Night is typically considered from dusk til dawn.

    So if we say “the night of the 2nd” then that’s from dusk til 23:59:59 of the 2nd.
    Which is then followed by night that isn’t the night of the 2nd nor night of the 3rd.
    And I’d say “before dawn” or “early morning” of the 3rd would be problematically ambiguous.

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      3 hours ago

      “early morning of the 3rd” and “before dawn of the 3rd” definitely would not become 00:00—8:00 of the 2nd, and that’s all that matters imo for the practical utility of delineating borders between days in the first place. i also like organizing things but i see absolutely no way to define “organized” for this lol

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        2 hours ago

        I don’t understand what you mean here, why would “before dawn of the 3rd” become 00:00-08:00 of the 2nd?

        I’m saying to shift what 00:00 is, to align with dawn(ish), so that a calendar day is comprised of a contiguous day followed by a contiguous night, which is how we typically intuit about days anyways when we aren’t talking about time.

        I know there are practical modern issues with this, but this is a silly post about how unsatisfying it is for the day to start at midnight