[ale] [OT] Date change proposal

[Jeff Lightner]

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.

 

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From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On Behalf Of
Warren Myers
Sent: Monday, August 11, 2008 4:22 PM
To: ale at ale.org
Subject: Re: [ale] [OT] Date change proposal

 

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

WMM

2008/8/11 Jim Kinney <jim.kinney at gmail.com>

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.

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.

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.

In 1969 of our current counting practice, humans first set foot on a
non-terrestrial object, the Moon. 

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. 

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James P. Kinney III 


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