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Can't I just hide my clock, then?

It's also weird if you start hacking at 2, and wake up the next day and start hacking at 1095.

Or 1098.

Yes but it is helpful for tax purposes! The clock switching from 2 to 1095 means that:

You have survived another rotation of the earth around the sun

and

It's time to close last years books and open a new set and deduct your business expenses against the new

But... going from 2016 to 2017 does the same thing.