Scientists' proposed calendar synchronizes dates with days
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Scientists' proposed calendar synchronizes dates with days
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#2Good luck convincing the rest of the world to convert to a scientifically optimized calender.
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#3Brought to you from a country that has not adopted SI units.
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#5Happy Thermidor!
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#6Good luck convincing the rest of the world to convert to a scientifically optimized calender.
All those unscientific countries still haven't adopted rods and hogsheads. I guess it will just be the US, Burma and Liberia again.
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#7Here's a revolutionary thought - the calendar is already fixed. Sporting events (etc.) don't have to happen on the same weekday, they can just always happen on the same date. Voila, predictable time planning that doesn't have to be redone every year.
And I love the idea of eliminating timezones, especially the example that pilots already use UTC. Ever considered this might be because the concept of "day" doesn't really apply when you change 10 timezones in 10 hours?
Personally I think eliminating timezones would make relating to people internationally very difficult. It's already weird enough that Australians think of December as a summer month. Consider half the world thinking of 20:00 (8PM) as the morning. How does "everywhere is the same hour" even remotely fix the fact people sleep at night and work at day anyway?
And what do you do with an extra week "every five or six years"?
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#8Brought to you from a country that has not adopted SI units.
That depends on what you mean by adopted. The federal government/education establishment/etc. all use SI units. It's the general populace which couldn't care less.
Which means this proposal has the same probability of adoption as me winning the lottery. And I don't buy lottery tickets.
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#9Interesting but it won't happen. It would have to be adopted throughout the world (especially where religious days are affected) and there would never be agreement on which holidays fall on which day (NYE on Friday or Saturday?).
I don't fully understand the other point in the article about ridding the world of time zones to improve business and trade. How would that work? Do they expect certain countries to agree to work while the sun is down?
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#10sounds like a typical startup idea