From New Scientist, via BoingBoing.
The proposed calendar would make figuring out holidays, and college course schedules, much easier. That "extra week" every five or six years is interesting, too...it means a cluster of time that is unrelated to anything, which is kind of wild, and it also means that the seasons would shift just a little bit until the week was reached, and then snap back into place.
The idea is bizarre, but it could work.
His other idea, that everyone should operate on GMT, is also interesting. Nowadays, we can say "What time is it there?" to our friends in other countries in order to get an idea of what they're up to. If everyone operated on GMT, we'd instead have to either ask directly what they were doing, or ask "What time of day is it there?", or come up with a whole new paradigm in our heads to cover the timezone difference. I don't know, I think the calendar idea has more merit.
Still, I don't really think either of them would catch on.
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AHHHHHHHHHH!! I don't think I could handle the certainty of all of that! I'D LOVE it --DO NOT GET ME WRONG-- had it always been that way, but I doubt I could handle its implimentation now, seeing as for all my life I've had to sit with a calendar, figure back and forth and take into account the shifting of days when planning things in advance.
No no, that lovely regularity would unfortunately present too much for which my brain would have to adjust. I'd probably compensate by picking up some sort of annoying habit...
SIGH...
~Brooke
Oh, and as for the time zone thing, well that'd freak me out, too..
Goodness, Heather, when did I become so calendarily (is that even a WORD??) challenged?! When did I become so frightened of time zones? What the hell's the matter with me?
I think I'm bored...
~Brooke
Unfortunately the cost of reprogramming to change the calendar is prohibitive. In fact, the cost is prohibitiveprohibitiveprohibitive.
- Isak
http://minyanofhits.blogspot.com/
Oh, that is a very good point. I didn't even think of that.
Now I'm positive it'll never catch on ;D
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