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[โ€“] gcgallant 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Time is a human abstraction. It is used as an instrument for organizing activity, it provides for the determination of longitude, and it allows us to navigate in earth-centric, or other, coordinate systems. It allows us to save daylight ... or not. Einstein said, "Time is relative. Its only worth is what we do as it is passing".

There isn't even one universal time. There's UT0, UT1, UT2, UTC (which coordinates well ) and others. There's terrestrial time, GPS time, and, of course, there's International Atomic Time which (and you will enjoy this) the French call TAI. I can go on.

So time has great purpose but isn't necessarily reasonable. Because of this I will count September from day 1 through day 35 and label the first day of October as 6. I mean, why not? :)