Why is it that we officially start a new day at midnight instead of at dawn?

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Why is it that we officially start a new day at midnight instead of at dawn?

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When is dawn, though? If I live a couple hundred miles north of you, even in the exact same longitude, my dawn will start at a different time to yours, but our midnights will still be the same time.

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