New Calendar Proposal 796
belg4mit writes "An astronomy professor at Johns Hopkins is pushing for
the adoption of a new, static, calendar. The
press release is written better than his site
but a little short on details.
Interestingly he claims this should be easy to implement and points at the hoops coders must jump through for the Gregorian calendar." Nobody is taking my 10 hour day plan seriously either.
Riddle me this, Batman... (Score:5, Funny)
Timely and semi-related riddle.
Q - Why do computer geeks celebrate Halloween on Christmas?
A - Because OCT 31 equals DEC 25.
Thank you, thank you. I'm here all week.
10 hour day (Score:5, Funny)
Actually, it was the one hour of work that your boss didn't like.
Excellent! (Score:1, Funny)
I'm going to write to my congressman and ask him to lobby the standards organizations to study this.
Straight away!
Re:Sounds like a nut. (Score:4, Funny)
Worse is if you're born during a Newton week.
But ... (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Sounds like a nut. (Score:1, Funny)
Thank you for your submission, but... (Score:5, Funny)
Thank you for submitting your idea for calendar reform. However, we must reject it for the following reasons:
There are five 100-minute hours in my week (Score:5, Funny)
Yes, but the question is, (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Hrm... (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Week long month? (Score:1, Funny)
Re:Sounds like a nut. (Score:5, Funny)
Re:This won't please YHWH/Allah/insert deity here (Score:1, Funny)
Re:Hrm... (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Riddle me this, Batman... (Score:5, Funny)
Which week and which calendar so I know to avoid your bad jokes?
Re:so.. (Score:3, Funny)
Wouldn't that be kilograms? ;)
Re:It Stays Exactly the Same, Year after Year! NOT (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Sounds like a nut. (Score:1, Funny)
Re:so.. (Score:5, Funny)
Not thinking big enough (Score:5, Funny)
However, with big enough rockets, we can fix this! Slow the day down a bit, move the moon out -- 30 days in a month, 360 days in a year. Nice and regular!
(Still seeking funding.)
Re:Sounds like a nut. (Score:5, Funny)
It's about time we thought of the programmers! Let's bioengineer ourselves to have 16 fingers, and adopt hex for counting.
Re:Sounds like a nut. (Score:2, Funny)
It was the 13th day of the 13th month (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Sounds like a nut. (Score:2, Funny)
Simple, then. We simply design a calendar whereby everybody's birthday is on a Friday or Saturday.
Re:Sounds like a nut. (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Sounds like a nut. (Score:2, Funny)
Get back to work!
Re:13 Month Calendar (Score:5, Funny)
Wow, you're dating a werewolf?
Re:Sounds like a nut. (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Actually ...deps ... (Score:1, Funny)
2. In international standard ISO-8601 the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) has decreed that Monday shall be the first day of the week.
Therefore, the ISO is more powerful than God. Q.E.D.
Re:so.. (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Sounds like a nut. (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Sounds like a nut. (Score:3, Funny)
It's not any different than the statement "The Imperial system does not cease to exist, it just isn't ordinarily used. Except by hicks." Looking at the world, that's pretty much the case.
Screws up Halloween! (Score:4, Funny)
He also wiped out my wedding anniversary, which is on a 31st. Do you think this would mean I wouldn't have to buy gifts?
Physics based time... (Score:3, Funny)
Sorry, no. (Score:4, Funny)
Re:French Revolutionary Calendar (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Just stop it (Score:1, Funny)
So I say, Welcome to Slashdot.
Re:13 Month Calendar (Score:2, Funny)
Naw, but she's almost as hairy
Re:No more timezones!!! (Score:3, Funny)
If you're going to make a drastic change... (Score:4, Funny)
I propose that we get rid of years, months, weeks, and just jump straight to
We can make stardate 1 be the date on which the first ST:TOS episode aired (September 8, 1966 [startrek.com], old Earth calendar
I believe that that makes today (December 21, 2004) stardate 13985.
Heh, first things first (Score:3, Funny)
Re:13 Month Calendar (Score:3, Funny)
That was exactly his point.
And nobody takes my "fall back" plan seriously... (Score:4, Funny)
Well, I'D vote for it...at least it's no crazier than thinking we're "gaining" or "losing" an hour by fiddling with the clocks.
Re:Slighty OT, but... (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Sounds like a nut. (Score:4, Funny)
A bad joke? (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Nutcase (Score:3, Funny)
I like his response to "Well I still don't think it's gonna work". He effectively states "I called my Grandmother in Canada once and she said it's cold there."
Now that's an answer for a nutcase!
13 month year (Score:2, Funny)
The advantage of my plan is that the thirteenth month would have no rent, interest or taxes payable.
Vote for Dave, world dictator!