Somebody's already bought 5 of these things that don't exist yet? Last time that happened, China ended up with 747's that had bungee cords holding the third engine on.
So, I agree about the whole decimal hour thingy (kind of...it's gonna throw my light-second off by several billion kilometers). But I thought this was supposed to be easier for computers to calculate? Without using a table, a computer won't be able to recognize which years were Newton years; "...every five or six years..." doesn't sound too scientific to me. Our current calendar is based on rules which, no matter how this guy says it, is NOT that hard to implement in computers.
This calendar will fail miserably because time and date are based on the sun...
The Gregorian Calendar does not cease to exist, it just isn't ordinarily used. Except by hicks.
Um, I hate to break it to you, but even though we're all computer nerds here, (nerdz rool) somebody has to make my hot-pockets and salsa.
If you want standard date/time, you've got it: GMT. Use it, record historical events with it (like hackers in your zoneAlarm log), but don't run everyday life with it.
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Somebody's already bought 5 of these things that don't exist yet? Last time that happened, China ended up with 747's that had bungee cords holding the third engine on.
This calendar will fail miserably because time and date are based on the sun...
Um, I hate to break it to you, but even though we're all computer nerds here, (nerdz rool) somebody has to make my hot-pockets and salsa.If you want standard date/time, you've got it: GMT. Use it, record historical events with it (like hackers in your zoneAlarm log), but don't run everyday life with it.