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All discussions of daylight saving time policy are doomed by a mix of contradictory, inconsistent, and impossible preferences, which is why I think the only thing we can really hope to do is to make it worse.
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Source: https://xkcd.com/3272/
They used to do this. Hours were divisions of the day, like slices of a pie, rather than a specific length of time.
Using equal hours, and dividing them into minutes, was something only astronomers did to help with their calculations.