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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>I’ve always wondered why in this age
of technology we bother with time changes (daylight to standard and vice-versa)
and leap years? We should be able to program things to make minute adjustments
ever morning at 2 AM so that we never have to notice that the time is changing
at all. For the time changes this makes even more sense as of course the days
don’t really suddenly get an extra hour (or lose one) of daylight.</span></font></p>
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ale-bounces@ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces@ale.org] <b><span style='font-weight:
bold'>On Behalf Of </span></b>Warren Myers<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b> Monday, August 11, 2008 4:22
PM<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>To:</span></b> ale@ale.org<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> Re: [ale] [OT] Date
change proposal</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><font size=3
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>I'm not sure I get the
"longer than a solar year" part - our current year is actually
*shorter* than a solar year, hence needing leap years<br>
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WMM</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>2008/8/11 Jim Kinney <<a href="mailto:jim.kinney@gmail.com">jim.kinney@gmail.com</a>></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><font size=3
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>This may seem to come out
of left field (as do many of my ideas...) but I would like some feedback on a
proposal to renumber the calendar year.<br>
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The current scheme is based on an event that is controversial and not exactly
well defined time-wise. Further is is oriented around a time period that is
longer than a solar year. Having the year numbering system based on an event
that is central to one religious culture denigrates all others.<br>
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I would like to propose a new calendaring scheme based around an event that
represents a human milestone achievement. Granted is tied to the
accomplishments of a single country but it is clearly a global, human event.<br>
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In 1969 of our current counting practice, humans first set foot on a
non-terrestrial object, the Moon. <br>
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Maybe I'm just a science nut but that is a milestone of human achievement that
would make a better marker for calendaring than a nebulous date range of 32
years not well known in the past and not acceptable to some other cultures. <br
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James P. Kinney III </span></font></p>
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Warren Myers<br>
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