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Old 12-30-2011 | 09:57 AM
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I just read an article about this, and based on the explanation, I like it and it makes a lot of sense. Calendar reform: Time for a change?. The proposal for Universal Time would be a great change to adopt as well.

http://henry.pha.jhu.edu/calendar.html

Hanke-Henry Calendar


 

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Old 12-30-2011 | 12:24 PM
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I'm all for everyone just using UTC and getting rid of DST. Heck, most of the people I deal with don't understand time zones and savings time anyway. I get email from Californians asking me to call them at 3PM PST in July, and Texans who ask "What is that in my time?" when I write "2:00PM CST". And Arizona? Forget about it. Most of 'em never know when their clocks and mine are in sync. But WTF, they're crazy in Arizona anyway.

The calendar? I don't see the point in swapping one workaround for another. In that goofy proposal, we get an extra week every five or six years... so is it five this time? Or six? What's 30 days from today if it's December 10 in a (new) leap year?
 
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Old 12-30-2011 | 12:29 PM
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I think that if each of the 12 months just had 30.41667 days, it would all balance out just right. Why can't we do that?

(OK - so I issed the part about "deep thinking" but it is FRIDAY!)
 
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Old 12-30-2011 | 01:10 PM
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I spent time to type a fairly long reply right after VW posted this thread. And it's GONE. LOL Not doing it again. All I say now is good idea.
 
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Old 12-30-2011 | 01:21 PM
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the bastardo's have something against Halloween.. talk about going around your elbow to get to your ****, just to whack a Pagan holiday..

there are several tales that explain the time zones, and some of them make sense.. They especially made sense back when a trip from the UK to NY took more than two weeks, and a trip overland from NY to San Fran took well over a month.,, Today, I can pick up a phone and call Doha, Qatar (and do almost daily), and conference in Germany, Okinawa, and South Korea all in a matter of seconds.. The time zones mattered at one time, but that time is gone..

eff that calendar, though.. an extra week every five or six years? really? And, who, precisely, other than a handful of people would ever consider moving to such? Remember the premise of Y2K? Every computer on the planet would be effed up..
 
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Old 12-30-2011 | 01:51 PM
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You can't get rid of Halloween. That is my birthday! If you got rid of October 31st, I would not exist!
 
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Originally Posted by dodge dude94
You can't get rid of Halloween. That is my birthday! If you got rid of October 31st, I would not exist!

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Old 12-30-2011 | 02:56 PM
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the bastardo's have something against Halloween.. talk about going around your elbow to get to your ****, just to whack a Pagan holiday..
Uh, ya mean like setting the date of Christmas for December 25th when the one thing that's clear from the description of Jesus' birth in the New Testament is that it wasn't in winter? Or hijacking Easter and not even bothering to change the name or the symbols?

Funny stuff, religion is. Ya can't even get a Jew, a Christian, and a Muslim to agree on which year it is. Today is Prickle-Prickle, Day 72 of The Aftermath, YOLD 3177.
 
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Uh, ya mean like setting the date of Christmas for December 25th when the one thing that's clear from the description of Jesus' birth in the New Testament is that it wasn't in winter? Or hijacking Easter and not even bothering to change the name or the symbols?

Funny stuff, religion is. Ya can't even get a Jew, a Christian, and a Muslim to agree on which year it is. Today is Prickle-Prickle, Day 72 of The Aftermath, YOLD 3177.
you'd whoop my **** in trivial pursuit.. you know way too much about too much.. I think I like the sound of 'boomtime', and 'setting orange'.. prickle-prickle just doesn't sound like a fun day..
 
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Old 12-30-2011 | 03:49 PM
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Originally Posted by drewactual
you'd whoop my **** in trivial pursuit.. you know way too much about too much.. I think I like the sound of 'boomtime', and 'setting orange'.. prickle-prickle just doesn't sound like a fun day..
Would have to the first day of the work week.
 


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