[geeks] Now for something completely geek

[Phil Stracchino]

Sandwich Maker wrote:
> " From: Phil Stracchino <phil.stracchino at speakeasy.net>
> " I've been saying for some time that it's time for a uniform global
> " timezone.  So local dawn is at 1347?  You'll get used to it....
> 
> why not decimal time while you're at it?  100 sec/min, 100 min/hr,
> 10 hr/day.  1 new sec = 0.864 old sec.

That'd require changing speedometers on every vehicle, recalculating and
redefining physical constants, etc, etc.

Now, calendar reform I could go for.  Our current calendar is a MESS.
The best suggestion I've heard of was actually proposed either by Arthur
Clarke or Isaac Asimov, I forget which:  Thirteen months of twenty-eight
days each, with one extra day.  Every month is exactly four weeks; no
more confusion around things like "fifth Monday of the month".  The
leftover day is not a part of any month, it's a standalone "year day",
and all leap-second adjustments are made to it.  (Plus, of course, the
leap day every four years except every two hundred except every
thousand, or whatever the exact rule is.)


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