>> Binary: Using or denoting a system of numerical notation
>> that has 2 rather than 10 as a base.
Binary is like counting on your thumbs. The only digits are "one" and "zero".
>> how is a binary watch different from a regular watch?
Cats use binary time, especially when they want me to feed them.
There is "right now", and there is "not now".
Only "right now" is acceptable.
>> So my question is exactly what springs or falls at 2:00am The urban myth is that we do this for farmers.
The way I heard it, "Daylight Savings Time" was for children waiting for school buses, so they didn't have to wait in the dark.
Some cartoonist satirized it by showing how a mother kept her children warmer by cutting the top few inches off a short blanket, and sewing it back on the bottom.
Democritus had something loosely like:
We say "hot", we say "cold".
We say sour" and we say "sweet".
But in truth there are only atoms and the void.
