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Of course, that doesn't change the fact that forcing everyone to switch to UTC would be the most hare-brained idea in history of timekeeping.

Oh it's bad, but I think the 28-hour day is worse: The 28 Hour Day. But we're arguing over which pile of shit is worse, which just means we both agree they're horrible. Let's leave it at that.

I always found the 28 hour day to be a great idea.

only 6 days in the week though.

http://www.dbeat.com/28/

It also revealed that in a few sleep studies where the subjects are kept from knowing the real time or seeing any cues (daylight), that they tended to sleep more on the order of 10 hours a night with their sleep cycle drifting an hour later each day (ie. they would go to sleep an hour later each day without realizing it).

Hey, I do exactly that even with time cues! Man, it'd be great if the day were 25 hours long, or if I had a flexible enough schedule to switch to a six day week.

While you're at it, why not switch to the 4-day work week. That way things aren't skewed to a particular timezone.

Although I haven't figured out my sleep schedule, even after ~10 years as an adult, or been bothered by my abnormalities enough to investigate sleep therapy (yet), I find my natural cycle to vary up to 36 hours. Actually, 12 hours of sleep and 24 hours of awake would be my perfect scenario. I'd be tired enough to fall asleep after 24 hours, and feel rested enough to get up naturally after 12 hours.

That said, almost every weekend, regardless of my activity level, I don't go to sleep until I'm actually tired (instead of the routine of going to bed by 1AM on weeknights), which is usually between 3-5AM. I usually won't get up until around 3PM, and on long weekends or vacations I'll repeat that cycle almost involuntarily ad infinitum. It started when I was 13 or so, and I thought it was just an effect of adolescence which would diminish into adulthood, but that hasn't been the case. It can be bad at times. When the weekend is over, I'm usually in the precarious situation of having stayed up all night Sunday night, and then I have to work all day. My attention and performance suffers accordingly, although since most people are sluggish on Monday, I don't think I stand out. I had to have an ID photo taken on one such Monday though. That wasn't pretty, and I'm surprised nobody thought I needed a drug/alcohol test.

I do find sleep to be a horrible waste of time, but I enjoy it enough that I wouldn't want to experiment with 30 minute naps. I have found Einstein's practice of taking 15-30 minute naps during the day to effectively offset afternoon fatigue, but, ironically, I've found vigorous excercise to have the same effect. I think the 28 hour day is an interesting concept that might better fit my (un)natural sleep cycle, but I don't think it would be effective unless an entire community adopted it, and even then you'd have to contend with the fact that the middle of the day for you would, at times, be the middle of the night for everyone in adjacent time zones. I suspect that any proposal that an entire country adopt such a system would be met with, if not laughs, outright anger and protests. (Perhaps especially from the ID community who would suggest that being awake during the Witching Hours is a form of devil worship).

this article links to the 28 hour day. http://www.dbeat.com/28/ I think its an excellent idea.

Better yet, divide the week into six days of 28 hours and get more leisure time.

We should just adopt the 28-hour day.

There's no need to pretend like we actually need to make full use of the daylight hours anymore. We have electricity and most most jobs involve working indoors anyway.

6 days a week with no Monday. Sounds brilliant.

Ah but check out the benefits!!!!!!

http://www.dbeat.com/28

An alternative way of living:

- More Sleep time
- More Fun time
- Less time spend travelling to work
- More productive working time

http://www.dbeat.com/28

Regards
EarthGecko

Seen this? http://www.dbeat.com/28/

It's still be a (near) revolution around the sun, except it'd be 312 "days" to the year, though still 52 weeks.

24 hours * 7 days * 52 weeks = 8736 hours
28 hours * 6 days * 52 weeks = 8736 hours

All times approximate.

How about 28 hours? Looks like a good idea to me...

If so, you could try switching to the six day week. I'd try it myself if my school and job were flexible enough...

..you want to reorganise the entire western hemispheres calendering system because the new one is easier to code?

I'm not pointing at this new idea in particular, but I would certainly like an easier calendar to understand. Or are you telling me that you understand all the rules regarding leap years and even leap seconds?

What I would like to see, though, is the 28 hour day. It splits weeks into six days, with a full third devoted to the weekend. You still work the same amount, because going into work for four longer days instead of five shorter ones means that there's less travelling time.

I think this idea is even less likely to get off the ground than the new calendar though :(.

10 hour day

Pah! Real men have a 28-hour day! Actually, I tried this for a while and found it worked, but was too impractical as the rest of the world didn't try it.

On the subject of time measurements, here is a link to avocacy of the 28 hour day. I for one am all for it!

I find that sleeping for 10 hours and then staying awake for 20 hours works best for me.

Sounds like you might be interested in the 28-hour day.

It seemed like an interesting proposition to me, but I never dared try it out, mostly because of the synchronisation problems I imagined this would cause (what you called "getting everyone else to work around your schedule").

Excellent...

Our archaic time/date system should switch over to metric. 10 months. 10 hours per day. 100 minutes per hour, 100 seconds per minute.

I thought about that, too.

Since seconds are the base unit of time here, you're talking about a day that is 8.64 "hours" long, if you keep it the same number of seconds as our 24 hour day. Well that's too strange, so let's round it to 9 "hours" a day. But that doesn't jive with the rest of the metric system, so let's stretch it again to 10 hours in a day.

Now you're talking about a day that is 100,000 seconds long, or 27.78 traditional hours. Amazingly, there is already a plan out there to support "28-hour" days!

Let's merge the two ideas together, right?!

Well no. If you work out the math, I think the problem with this idea is there are two extremes you're dealing with which probably cannot be changed. The length of time of a second, and the length of time of a "year" (or four seasons). You can't possibly change those two things. Therefore I don't think it's possible to divide minutes/hours/days/weeks/months evenly in a metric style system.

-thomas

A real genius would have figured out how to give us more hours in the day -- without shortening the length of those hours

You mean, Like this?
/me Drools over the prospect of a 28 hour day... God, i'd love it.

http://www.dbeat.com/28/

Mantle