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[–] [email protected] 106 points 7 months ago (9 children)

The article: https://www.politico.eu/article/norway-arctic-region-asks-eu-commission-for-26-hour-day/

How would the new time zones work in practice? Wenche Pedersen, the mayor of Vadsø who authored the letter, is unsure.

“We haven’t thought a lot about that” she said. “The clock will go from 12 to 13… and we have to see how this will go. I don’t think they’re going to say yes so we haven’t thought about all the details.”

Huh. Great idea.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 7 months ago (5 children)

I hear they're also declaring that pi equals three.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 7 months ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

I assume this is just to get people use to the idea of algebra.

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