Total Confusion: A New Calendar Suggestion http://www.popsci.com/science/articl...-identical-one Each year stays the same, so Jan.3 is a Tuesday for the end of time. No leap years, instead a leap week every 5 years. I think at the end of the day, we need to devote our scientists to solving real problems. Quote:
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Linky for those not wanting to search: A Rethought Calendar Makes Each Year Identical to the One Before | Popular Science |
No more leap years would be nice... People on monthly salary pay no longer have to work for free on Feb 25th... |
i hope they make the calendar so my birthday is on the weekend forever.. |
Not sure will this pass... kind of doubt it. But only because I think most of the population will not want change, including myself. Although I did read through the article including this one. Calendar Reform I didn't fully understand everything, but the potential issues seem well covered. I don't really mind about my birthday being in the middle of the week. It's not like all my life, I have only been celebrating my birthday whenever it landed on a weekend. It's really not that big of a deal. Most of us already just celebrate it on the closest weekend. |
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Would you mean the 29th? |
they can implement it but it wont ever be worldwide.. Good luck. |
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My brain took the day off today. |
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As long as my bday is a friday or saturday, I'd be cool with it |
It mentions the man hours and money saved by uniform year would be tremendous. I strongly disagree. The modification to the day that DST occurs was bad enough. I can't imagine the excruciating headache that modifying the calendar would cause. Save money, my ass. |
On the upside, my birthday would be on a friday for the rest of my life.. |
my suggestion is to make same days in each month, maybe 30 (365 divide by 12)?? comes to think of it ... anyone know why each month has the days it has? |
I think overall, it actually is a better system... but it's too hard to change something like this that's universally accepted by almost the entire population of Earth. Similar to how there's little argument the metric system is vastly superior to the imperial system, but yet it's been almost impossible to get countries still stuck on imperial to switch over. The biggest quirk with the new proposed system is this: Quote:
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The Romans fucked it up. The whole problem comes from the fact that a solar year isn`t a straight 365 days. The romans named the months after themselves(well, the emperors). From Wikipedia: The more modern Gregorian calendar eventually superseded the Julian calendar: the reason is that a tropical year (or solar year) is actually about 11 minutes shorter than 365.25 days. These extra 11 minutes per year in the Julian calendar caused it to gain about three days every four centuries, when compared to the observed equinox times and the seasons. In the Gregorian calendar system, first proposed in the 16th century, this problem was dealt with by dropping some calendar days, in order to realign the calendar and the equinox times. Consequently, the Gregorian calendar drops three leap year days across every four centuries. Done by: Every year that is exactly divisible by four is a leap year, except for years that are exactly divisible by 100; the centurial years that are exactly divisible by 400 are still leap years. For example, the year 1900 is not a leap year; the year 2000 is a leap year |
Forgot to mention, the calendars all started adding in days to bring it out to 365 days, while still maintaining the 7 day week important for religion. February, for some reason has been 28 days since before the adoption of the Julian calendar, so since before the supposed birth of christ. |
i would hate to have my bday fall on a monday each year etc Posted via RS Mobile |
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