[ Timezones ]

There is annual angst around here this time of year.  The southern states go on daylight savings time, jumping ahead one hour.  Queensland does not. 

Yet while I’m in Brisbane, if I called someone in Melbourne as the sun rose, they’d say yep, it’s rising here right now too.  And yet our clocks say 5am here, 6am there.

But it’s all a construct.  Clock-time is made up so that humans meet deadlines.

In summer, I put my clock ahead too.  Everyone else in Brisbane thinks I get up at 5am, but my clock says it’s six.  The sun doesn’t care.