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New Calendar Proposal

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the something-to-think-about dept.

belg4mit writes "An astronomy professor at Johns Hopkins is pushing for the adoption of a new, static, calendar. The press release is written better than his site but a little short on details. Interestingly he claims this should be easy to implement and points at the hoops coders must jump through for the Gregorian calendar." Nobody is taking my 10 hour day plan seriously either.

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  1. It Stays Exactly the Same, Year after Year! NOT by mcg1969 · · Score: 4, Interesting
    On this page, he makes the claim about the calendar: "It Stays Exactly the Same, Year after Year!"

    Only, it doesn't. About every 5-6 years or so he inserts an extra week in the calendar between June and July.

    No, it's not every 5 years, and no, it's not every 6 years. It's sometimes 5, and sometimes 6. You'll just have to ask him.

    So will someone tell me why this is any less difficult than what we currently use?

  2. Re:10 hour day by P-Nuts · · Score: 4, Interesting

    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.

  3. 13 Month Calendar by SuperQ · · Score: 5, Interesting

    This whole 30 day calendary is silly.. if you're going to re-shuffle everything, make it a simple 13 month, 28 day calendar.

    the month is exactly 4 weeks

    There is only 1 spare da a year (a real new-years-day)

    You still probably need to do leap-years.. but that's less of a big deal, just make new-years 2 days.

    You also get the bonus of being more in-sync with lunar changes. (which is easier to keep track of my gf's moods ;)

  4. Slighty OT, but... by kyle_b_gorman · · Score: 5, Interesting

    ...you know what we could actually do? We could think of each of our 10 fingers as being a 0 or 1 in a 10 digit, base 2 number. Hold the finger up, and you've got a 1, otherwise it's a 0. Thinking of our fingers as a binary number, we'd get 2^10 (that's 1024) digits, which is a good deal better than our measly 10 we get now. Of course, this catching on would require quite a meme. Can anybody reading this do it well?

    Practice with an applet here