+1 I've been calling what's to come soon "real time" a long time. I've sailed an ocean and made landfall with a sextant and good watch (and we nailed our landfall target perfectly). Real time is the only time that matters for celestial navigation. Now some celestial navigation isn't very dependent on time (latitude in the Northern hemisphere when you can see the North Star) but the importance of the Sun's elevation at high noon and noon being exactly when the sun is highest is probably older than mankind. All the ancient clocks and many of the celestially oriented building the direction of high noon.

Yes, time zones are a bastardization of real time that help us communicate with other humans at distances that used to be hard to imagine. But high noon happening at 11:00am plus or minus? Just - no. I have no issues with businesses, etc. move their hours of operation to reflect the lengthening of days. Farmers have been adjusting their schedules to the sun for the past 10,000 years. But leave the clocks, which evolved from the sun dial, alone.

Sorta on topic - I had the thought that Portland's sidewalks soon will never see sunlight because of all the tall buildings. Sad.

Ben