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This is why I created my own alternative to ordinary clocks - Maker Time: http://willholloway.net/makertime.html

Clocks get it wrong because they count up, but one day we will all die, so from our perspective time is counting down.

I started thinking about alternative calendar systems when I learned about Post-Revolutionary France's attempt at introducing metric time.

The problem with dividing the year by 1000 is 1000 is divorced from astronomical reality of life on earth. Swatch internet time is the latest attempt at this but I think it misses the mark.

I wanted a time keeping system that matched up with our cosmic reality and the reality of making things vs managing people. We have two important events, the year (one rotation of the earth around the sun) and the day (one rotation of the earth). The moon's cycle is only important for tides (and it's close in duration to the female menstral cycle)

Maker time divides the year into 1095 (or 1098 in a leap year) blocks. Each block is 8 hours. On January 1st the count resets.

This way I don't have to look at the clock and feel the stress it engenders, but also I get to mark the passage of time.

There are 82 maker time blocks left this year and I have big plans for those 82 remaining blocks of time. And one 8 hour block for sleep per day is productive time, thats when my brain encodes the things I learned into long term memory.



Nice! I made http://936months.staticloud.com/ to look at one's life in blocks of months (936 on average). Seems to work well for inspiring someone! :)


936 Months is really good. It sounds trite but this really does put things in perspective.


Stuff like this is why I still love HN, for all its flaws. :)

This is pretty interesting - I'm going to start checking Maker Time regularly, and see if my perspective on things changes. One's perception of the passage of time surely has an uncommonly high influence on important psychological factors like motivation and focus, and we've been using pretty much the same division of time for hundreds of years, so there are probably efficiency gains to be made with stuff like this.


Just to inform you and thank you, your application looks really beautiful in the Opera speed dial page ( https://www.google.com/search?q=opera+speed+dial&hl=es-4... ).

I made it the first bookmark.




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