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I read this article about how they're thinking about switching the time standard from GMT, Greenwich Time, to this atomic clock located just outside of Paris because it's technically more accurate. In the midst of all these overdramatic claims about how that would destroy humankind because in ten thousand years or so, noon might actually happen at 1 o-clock and our descendants would be ticked off at us (!?), there was this little gem:

At the Royal Observatory, 53-year-old homemaker Susie Holt was adjusting her wristwatch to match the digital display above the meridian. She said it would be a pity if GMT were made obsolete. Her daughter, 15-year-old Kirsty, was more forthright.

"We don't want the French to control time," she said. "They might get it wrong or something."

XD LAWWWWWWWL