Bore us, bore us! At least three Dopers in this thread want the details. That’s how boring we are.
2[sup]2[/sup]x3? You’re crazy. 2[sup]4[/sup] or 2[sup]2[sup]2[/sup][/sup] looks so much more elegant. Things of the logs! I have heard good things about base 3 though.
Unfortunately the Grand calendar is still in base 10. The base 16 version will be 4096 days long which is over 11 of our normal years. For base 10 it’s only 1000 days long. By the way there’s the added benefit of being able to say we’re only 11 years old.
For base 10 I had 10 days in the grand week. 10 grand weeks in the grand month and 10 grand months in the grand year. Working from the 100,000 moments in the day you can combine 100 of those to make a new minute and 100 of those to make a new hour. This leaves 10 new hours in a day. What I like is that you can write out the time like this 2154,4,3,2,0:04:36.24 which is .24 past the 36th moment of the 04th new minute of the 0th new hour of the 2nd day of the 3rd grand week of the 4th grand month of the grand year 2154.
Now the main purpose of the Grand Calendar is that we’d be a space based race. On Earth naturally we’d use our current calendar. But on Mars that wouldn’t make sense. So every planet would have their own natural calendar but the Grand Calendar would be used to keep everyone on the same page. So you’d get your normal earth calendar but on the bottom of a certain day would be 2454,4,5,6 then one higher the next day and so on and so forth. You have your planet centric annual things and your interplanetary things.
I’d like this calendar to be absolute. If only we had a way to measure precisely the age of the universe I’d want that to be 0,0,0,0,0:00:00.00 and we’d be currently around the year 13,700,000. I at least want the zero time to be before any human history but it’s hard to find a date we know with certainty that is significant. I had something made up from 9784 BC which I liked a lot because it meant we’d be able to celebrate the year 10,000. How cool would that be?
For base 16 if we had a 16 day week we could divide into the parts of 8. Then we could work 4, rest 1, work 1, rest 2. Repeat ad infinitum.
Also I would get rid of timezones. It’s the same time the world over. Only each area would have it’s own start area. So here in Hawaii we’d start work at 5:30 whereas California might set their start time to 4:00. Start time would be the time when most people start work. Although it would be odd to have the day change to the next in the middle of the afternoon.
In the base 10 Grand Calendar the school year would be divided into 4 quadremesters. We’d elect a President every 1, the House of Rep. every half year and the Senate every year and a half. I suppose that sports would have to remain on the Earth calendar.
A lot of the posters to this thread aren’t really all that boring, but just geeks of some stripe or another. Having niche or “lame” interests doesn’t make you the ultimate in boring; having no interests makes you the ultimate in boring.
(Seems Captain Lance Murdoch put it better than me, and before me to boot.)
Hmm, no one caught my error. It should be cgs (centimeter, gram, second) or mks (meter, kilogram, second).
Oh, yeah? I turned in something very much like that as an English paper in high school!
You’re alive.
I’ve been a member for only 4 years and my post count is up to 23,203 (23,204 counting this one) because I have nothing better to do with my evenings, nor with most of my days. Which is more boring?
That kind of amusing irony is why you’re not boring at all.
I would have but I nodded off. 
It should also be “than”.
When you decide to get a dog, and you are delighted to find that the dog-rescue group has exactly what you are looking for - an elderly mutt described as a “couch potato” whose favorite recreation consists of dragging his bed closer to the nearest heat source so he can sleep better.
So what you’re saying is, most of us really are interesting, but we’re of interest to such a small group of people that we appear boring to an outside observer.
:mad: NO, dammit! The basic unit of linear measurement should be the shortest length/distance that can meaningfully be measured: the Planck length (and I started a special GQ thread late last night just to determine that). All other units should be regular multiples of the Planck length (by base 10 or 16, either way).
Much easier. Abandon purely arbitrary “weeks” and “months.” Base the calendar on observable astronomical events on a dural lunar-solar basis: Designate each day “X days after the Winter Solstice and Y days after the New Moon.” Or simply, “X/Y.” If all dates were recorded that way, historians a thousand years from now could (after consulting with astronomers) place each date in an ancient record in its year even where the year is not actually specified.
Top that!
Yeah, but you’re funny and made me laugh, so, yeah, you suck at being boring (I agree with gigi, literally). 
I respect your idea because that was one of the original concepts I had. I abandoned lots of early concepts. For instance the best base of all is base 1.
0+0=00
000*000=000000000
Fun, but try and do your taxes with them and you’ll go mad.
I eventually settled on a man-o-centric calendar since when I’m inconvenienced for a non fun reason I can get cranky. So I really want to keep the day. Unfortunately working from planck time the closest we can get with a nice big round number is base 18 (100000000000000000000000000000000000) which is equal to 23.18 hours. I’m not about to shorten the day! The next closest in the first 100 bases that I tested is base 55 (10000000000000000000000000) which is equal to 26.59 hours. Well that I could do but I still wouldn’t like the over 2 hour shift per day in sunrise. Ooh, base 1032 (100000000000000) is only 1:13.24 minutes longer then a full day. I don’t know if I want to memorize that many digits though. On the upside no one will ever grow so old they enter into the double digits. So I settled on moments based on the day so that we could keep c, a constant used and awful lot in physics, a nice neat round number.
Ah, but you misunderstand the purpose of the Grand Calendar. Each planet would have their calendar that could be exactly how you want it. But overlaying our future galactic civilization we’ll need something to keep all the disparate planets, nebulae, space stations, rogue asteroids and habitable gas clouds in synch. So we’ll need two calendars. One for use on things relating to your own planet and one for things relating to the galactic nation. So baseball season would be played on Earth’s calendar but election cycles would be set on the Grand calendar.
I get excited when the phone rings, even though I know it’s a telemarketer.
I flirt with telemarketers.
Male or female.
Yes, but how many of you wish you menstruated so you wouldn’t have to deal with man-made calendars any more?
Well, that’s a real thread-stopper, apparently.
Dwight? Is that you?
Well, it could mean that you sleep around a lot so you don’t always come home to feed the cat or maybe you jet aroud the world at a moments notice and can’t always get a cat sitter.
It could mean that.
Something I did this weekend would certainly put me in this contest.
My husband and I went “garage saling” and I bought a 1989 Regents Mathmatics Course I study book…because I wanted to take the sample test from June 1984 to see if I could get a better score this time.
It was only $0.10. I couldn’t pass that up!
I love taking tests. I recently took the Notary Public test and I loved studying for it and taking the test. I was the first one finished and I passed, BTW.
I’ve had to kick a serious jigsaw puzzle addiction. Sadly, there are no support groups, so I had to do it cold turkey with no meetings, group hugs or helpful sayings. I’m okay now, though.
Regents Math tests! I loved those. Was it one of those red Barrons Regents study books? It was studying for those that finally gave me the breakthrough on d=rt and those time and motion problems. I was in 7th grade and skipping to 9th and my father had me take the Algebra test so I could jump to 10th grade math in 9th. He had taught me and my brother Algebra at home. I got 100 on all the Math tests. It’s only been downhill since then. 