What about Australia? Gonna start the year six months off these?
and they vote as a block.
I hate the display with the week starting on a Sunday. Monday - Friday are the weekdays, Saturday and Sunday are the weekend. Splitting Saturday and Sunday makes no sense grr
Now you’ve got the Oystermen up in arms.
They are weekends. Like bookends. At both ends. Other wise, Sunday and Monday would be the weekends
In current units of time, how long would the hours of a 20 hour day be. How long is a minute in a 100 minute New Hour, and how long is a New Second in metric time with 100 per New Hour and 20 New Hours per Sun Cycle?
Anyone up to the math?
If a day were divided into 20 hours, each hour would contain 72 minutes. If we look at 72 minutes as seconds, then this makes for 4,320 seconds. A “metric” minute would then be 43.2 seconds, and a “metric” second would be 0.432 seconds.
It’s not the calendar that’s the problem – it’s the planet. We need to adjust the rotational period of the Earth so that it’s exactly 1/360 of a year, and then adjust the orbit of the Moon so that it’s exactly 30 days. All our efforts as a species should be bent toward developing the necessary technology.
Don’t you find it peculiar that there are 360 degrees in a circle? Wonder where we picked up the extra 5.25 days to the year…
While we’re at it, since the days of the week came from the “visible planets” Sun, Moon, Mars, Mercury, Jupiter, Venus and Saturn, why don’t we go ahead and construct at least enough days to cover Uranus, Neptune, Pluto, the asteroid belt, the comets and whatever this latest chunk is that was recently discovered, giving us at least a 13-day week?
I have a chisel.
I’m all for running the year from March through December. Only have one day off every week. Then have all of the former January & February off.
Going to work and coming home in the cold and dark is just too damn depressing.
This reminds me of a neat calendar my boss had. It looked really old. It was a stick about three feet long attached to a circular base. The stick was actually a seven-faced (septagonal or heptagonal?) column-like structure that started at the top with March 1 and spiraled its way down to February 29. There was a disk with a seven-sided hole in the middle that was big enough to fit over the column, with markers corresponding to the sides of the heptagon(?) labeled Sunday through Saturday. You’d lift the disk off at the end of the year (February 28 or 29) and turn it one day’s worth before putting it back on. That way, all the Leap Day uproar and the 30-day and 31-day stuff was saved for the “end of the year.”
I told my boss that the stick calendar may have been as old (probably older) as the 1752 calendar reform when England (and its colonies) finally got on board the Gregorian system that Catholic Europe had been on since 1592. He looked at me as if I had just told him I had seen a UFO.
Nice work!
So, one might say “He’d steal your money in a metric minute!” Also, wouldn’t a minute be a Centihour and a second be a Millihour? Centiminute?
I had a calendar that had Saturday and Sunday at the tail end of the week (so the week started with Monday) and it screwed me up something awful. Keep Sunday and Saturday at the opposite ends of the week (as in the bookends idea) where they belong.
Some weeks, there’s never enough time to cover Uranus… 
Somehow this made me think of some comic talking about how fat his mother in law was (maybe it was his wife or girl friend, but the idea’s the same) when he said something like, “the shadow of her ass weighs 40 pounds.”
There actually was a metric calendar at one point. 100 minutes an hour, 10 hours a day, 10 days to the week, 10 weeks to the year. The only thing that had to be changed was how long the second lasted and everything else seemed to fall into place.
It lasted for about two years. The big flaw in the plan was this: workers got 1 day out of 10 off instead of 1 out of 7.
I don’t have a cite for any of this however I remember reading about it in the Bathroom Reader. Take that for what you will.
I was just about to suggest the same thing. We could denotate a bunch of nuclear bombs at strategic points on the earth’s surface to slow down its rotation, but I figure those pesky environmentalists would object to that. So how 'bout this, we attach a pair of humungous solar sails to the north and south poles, which catch the solar wind and slowly tug our planet into a different orbit. This of course will make the year longer, not shorter, but we could easily settle for another easily divisible year length like 400 days. It will also have the side benefit of putting the brakes on global warming, since now the sun is several more million miles away!
As for the moon, let’s just blow it up. All those damn lunar calendar societies worship the devil anyway.
Is that you, Alexander Abian? I thought you were dead.
Or are you Edward Teller?
Or… did anyone ever see Alexander Abian and Edward Teller together? Hmmmmm… 
There is no such leap day pending, as far as I know.
What is true is that the Gregorian Calendar (the calendar we use) is slow by a rate of one day per 3000 years, approximately — and if the people of the remote future really care about that error, they’ll have to drop a day at some point.
So perhaps the year 3200 — which would have been a leap year in the current system — will instead be declared a common year, by fiat But the current calendar system doesn’t actually plan that far ahead.