Just for fun, I wanted to know what a clock would look like if it mapped the calendar dates across 24 hours instead of hours, minutes, seconds.
<iframe src="https://adamjgrant.github.io/dates-as-time/" style="width: 100%;height: 350px;border:0px"></iframe>
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See this [Fullscreen](https://adamjgrant.github.io/dates-as-time/)
## lol
* The day would start at Jan 1st.
* If you stayed up past midnight you might go to bed on Valentine's Day, otherwise just before would be Christmas.
* Summer time happens in the evening.
* Lunch would be at approximately American Independence Day.
It might be fun to go about a day thinking of time this way if you did have such a clock.
> My haircut is today at Labor Day.
But we'd need to establish some rules first.
## Rules
- Non leap year just because who cares about that.
- Holidays are mapped to the current year. (Answering the question of when Labor Day would be above)
- The only calibration to the actual system of time is that 00:00 is equal to 00:00 on January 1st. That covers us for time zones, daylight savings times, and such.
So this all raises some questions.
## Facts
- One day is about 4 minutes.
- 3 minutes and 56.87671232876712 seconds to be more precise.
- The middle of the day is June 2nd.
- The 9-5 workday is mid-May to mid-September (May 17 - Sept 15).
- One hour is equal to about 15 days so a month takes about 2 hours.
- The shortest month is 2 hours and 1 minute long (February).
- The longest month is about 2 hours and 6 minutes (January, March, May, July, August, and October).
To further amuse myself, I built a clock that works exactly that way. It's currently running at the top of the page in your local time. [You can see it fullscreen here.](https://adamjgrant.github.io/dates-as-time/)
[On GitHub](https://github.com/adamjgrant/dates-as-time)