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Everyone does! Everyone does!
As of writing this article, one of the P addresses of the youtube services is `74.125.68.93`. As of writing this article, one of the IP addresses of the youtube services is `74.125.68.93`.
It is impractical to remember IP addresses of any target service. In the real world, these IP addresses would change over time more often than how real world addresses change. It would be a nightmare for both the youtube engineers as well as the end user to keep track of this. It is impractical to remember IP addresses of any target service. In the real world, these IP addresses would change over time more often than how real world addresses change. It would be a nightmare for both the youtube engineers as well as the end user to keep track of this.

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title: An Alternate Temporal Convention
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My proposal of an alternate convention for how we split and view the 24 hours in a day.
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## The Problem
A day is composed of 24 hours. In most places the 24 hours are roughly divided as follows (weekdays excluding holidays).
- Around 6 hours of sleep from *`0000`* to *`0600`*. The sun has still not risen.
- Around 12 hours of day time from *`0600`* to *`1800`*. Adults generally go to work and kids to school. The sun is up.
- Around 3 hours of family time from *`1800`* to *`2100`* that includes dinner. The sun has set.
- Around 3 hours of sleep from *`2100`* to *`2400`*. It is dark outside.
> I see a couple of problems with this convention.
1. We have approximately 12 hours of day time and 12 hours of night time, but it is split unevenly across the 24 hour clock as
- *Day* - *`0600`* to *`1800`*
- *Night* - *`0000`* to *`0600`* and *`1800`* to *`2400`*
1. By the time people wake up, quarter of the day has already passed.
## The Perfect split
To correct the above 2 problems, we can calibrate the time people wake up, and the time the sun rises, to be *`0000`* instead of *`0600`*.
- People wake up at around *`0000`*. Sun rises at around this time.
- Adults get ready to work by *`0300`*, Kids get to school by *`0200`*.
- Work time ends by *`1200`*. Kids get back home by around *`0900`* and play till *`1200`*.
- Family time from *`1200`*to *`1500`*, that includes dinner.
- Sleep at the end of the day from *`1500`* to *`2400`*.
> People now wake up at the start of the day. The sun occupies the sky from *`0000`* to *`1200`*, while the moon stays from *`1200`* to *`2400`*.
The suffices **AM** and **PM** can be replaced by **D** for day and **N** for night. The 12 hour time notation would be simply **0 D** to **12 D** and **0 N** to **12 N**.
## Implications
People would require some time to adjust to this convention. However, I think this could be beneficial to humanity in the long run and worth the discomfort.
- All historical events will have to be shifted by one day on either side depending on the time of the day happened. This would be a one time inconvenience at the time of implementing this change. This includes your birtday too!
- Holidays and festivals, now only start when people wake up. People don't have to stay up late to celebrate new year or christmas or a friend's birthday. They can come back from work the previous day and sleep. They need not leave work early for planning etc. Celebrations can start the next day rejuvenated.
- Late night parties can be converted into early -morning parties. It could be safer and healthier for people to party in broad daylight. Humans are not nocturnal creatures.
- When an alien civilization visits us, they would be impressed by our love for symmetry in our time keeping!!
## I'm sold, can we switch ?
Not so fast. In all seriousness, the cost of adjusting to the new convention is too high that I do not see how this new system will ever be in use in our times.
However, if human beings go extinct, I hope the next intelligent species that gets to shape earth, follows this convention while keeping time!!