Professors say permanent calendar would be cost-saver


World | 206696 hits | Jan 08 8:17 pm | Posted by: Hyack
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Two Johns Hopkins University profs are proposing a simpler, 'permanent' calendar, and the elimination of global time zones. But is the world ready to make the leap?

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  1. by avatar GreenTiger
    Mon Jan 09, 2012 2:29 pm
    It sounds interesting but I on't think the world would readily or easily withstand the culture shock.

  2. by Bruce_E_T
    Mon Jan 09, 2012 2:49 pm
    The other problem? The new calendar would shuffle around the order of the months with 30 and 31 days. February would get 30 days, for example, and so would January. So if your birthday is on January 31… well, that day just wouldn't exist anymore.



    This is kind of curious. Wonder how you would explain this to a small kid.

    I don't think this will go though. People are so used to things as they are and too few people will benefit.

    He mentions having every Christmas and New Year falling on Sunday but what if you have a religion whose main Holy day keeps falling on Thursday? At least Easter will be able to wander around as is its custom.

    Oh well.

  3. by avatar QBall
    Mon Jan 09, 2012 3:14 pm
    So he wants to turn the world on it's head just because he can't be bothered to take last year's syllabus, change the date and click 'Print'? Also his idea for the entire planet to use the same time zone is absurd. I don't want the time of 12:00 midnight (00:00 Hr) to occur at what is normally 7:00 P.M. How the hell would that work? It would make the Cinderella story seem a bit hard to relate to (Mommy, why is Cinderella trying leave the ball at midnight when it's still daylight outside?).

  4. by avatar DanSC
    Mon Jan 09, 2012 3:27 pm
    Hey look a solution for a problem that doesn't exist.

    The new calendar would eliminate leap years, but replace them with a whole extra week at the end of the year, every five to six years.

    Robot Party Week!


  5. by avatar Unsound
    Mon Jan 09, 2012 3:32 pm
    I classify this kind of thing as "intellectual wanking". It's kind of fun, and it might make the one doing it feel good, but it's ultimatly pointless and won't lead anywhere.

  6. by avatar Unsound
    Mon Jan 09, 2012 3:33 pm
    I'm all in favour of robot party week though...

  7. by avatar Scape
    Mon Jan 09, 2012 7:43 pm
    One calendar to rule them all.

  8. by avatar PublicAnimalNo9
    Mon Jan 09, 2012 8:15 pm
    Interesting proposals. Don't see a real downside. I do see his idea of all of us adopting "Zulu" time having much less chance than the calendar, although I think it's a great idea.

  9. by avatar DanSC
    Mon Jan 09, 2012 9:07 pm
    "PublicAnimalNo9" said
    Interesting proposals. Don't see a real downside. I do see his idea of all of us adopting "Zulu" time having much less chance than the calendar, although I think it's a great idea.


    Just hope they don't stick your birthday on a Tuesday

  10. by avatar PublicAnimalNo9
    Mon Jan 09, 2012 9:50 pm
    "DanSC" said
    Interesting proposals. Don't see a real downside. I do see his idea of all of us adopting "Zulu" time having much less chance than the calendar, although I think it's a great idea.


    Just hope they don't stick your birthday on a Tuesday
    Who the hell cares? 5 of every 7 years it falls on a weekday anyway.
    I've reached the age where I don't give a damn about my birthday. The person that should be celebrated that day is mothers. They carried us for 9 months. They squeezed us out that little opening but somehow, we think we have reason to celebrate accomplishment.
    Besides, it's birthday. I can celebrate it any damn day of the week I want :wink:

  11. by Regina Gold Member
    Mon Jan 09, 2012 10:19 pm
    Would I end up being older or younger?

  12. by avatar Brenda
    Mon Jan 09, 2012 11:08 pm
    "Regina" said
    Would I end up being older or younger?

    Is your b-day on Jan 31st? You don't even exist. Bu-bye! :lol:

  13. by avatar Brenda
    Mon Jan 09, 2012 11:10 pm
    "Bruce_E_T" said

    He mentions having every Christmas and New Year falling on Sunday but what if you have a religion whose main Holy day keeps falling on Thursday? At least Easter will be able to wander around as is its custom.

    Oh well.

    Well, Ascension day is a Thursday, ALWAYS. (10 days before Easter). North America does not celebrate it tho.

  14. by Bruce_E_T
    Mon Jan 09, 2012 11:33 pm
    "Brenda" said

    Well, Ascension day is a Thursday, ALWAYS. (10 days before Easter). North America does not celebrate it tho.


    My thinking is that it is anti-multicultural. If you set it up to please Christians you are going to put off pretty well everyone else.

    Though it seems like a reasonable idea on the surface exactly who is going to benefit to any great extent from it? Certainly not calendar makers. I can't figure out how companies can make money selling them anyway when it is so easy to get them for free.

    With the present calendar we all get to suffer some inconvenience together.



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