In article <fs1hgv$r8s$1@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
Keith F. Lynch <kfl@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
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>With today's clock technology, it would be easy enough to build clocks
>to run at varying speeeds, so that sunrise is always 6 am, the sun is
>always highest at noon, and sunset is always 6 pm.
We have those already. They're called sundials.
Of course people
>would have to get used to the idea that more can be done during a
>daylight hour in the summer than in the winter.
It's been done before. The Rule of St. Benedict gives different
timetables for prayer, work, meals, et cetera, according to the
time of year and the length of the day -- and of the separate
hours. Matins is (theoretically) at midnight, Prime [the "first"
hour of the day] at sunrise, Vespers at sundown ... there are
eight canonical Hours (when various prayers are said), spaced three
"hours" apart -- but the "hours" are stretched or compressed to
fit between sunrise and sunset, sunset and sunrise.
> Speed limits would
>also have to be adjusted, since 40 miles per hour on a summer night
>is a lot faster than 40 miles per hour on a winter night. Radio
>frequencies likewise, and a few other things.
Yes; well, St. Benedict didn't have any of those things around to
annoy him.
Dorothy J. Heydt
Albany, California
djheydt@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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