[Salvation]

For your information and discussion.

[Trillian]

.. and the thirteenth month shall be known as Smarch.
Lousy Smarch weather, brrr!

[auboy]

Simple solution. Why don't we just make it Miller Time.

[ItsForTheChildren]

I'm disappointed. You guys are missing the upside here.

An extra page in every cheerleader calendar!

[Old Professer]

It is always summer in Springfield...

[jennyp]

This will never work. Besides, there already is a much better system out there: The Time Cube.

[Dr. Eckleburg]

No doubt part of this garbage is trying to institute the C.E. (Common Era) for A.D. and the B.C.E. (Before Common Era) for B.C.

Not only is this Christian-bashing, occultist swill, but it's stupidly inefficient by virtue of its length. Modernization usually entails making things shorter, smaller simpler. This rewrite ADDS a letter and a word to the syntax. Which just shows how determined they are to obliterate all evidence of Christ from society.

I've told our children if they ever write C.E. or B.C.E. on a school paper I will burn it. I've told their teachers the same thing.

So far, so good.

[boris]

I have a more urgent situation needing immediate fixing:

The speed of light is 2.9979x10⁸ meters per second.

We need to change either the meter or the second to make it come out to 3.000000x10⁸ m/s. Nobody (much) would notice and it would stop irritating me.

--Boris

[Veloxherc]

This sounds like a smart idea. But, it's the UN idea then I am against it.

[Zack Attack]

If the concept of throwing the Gregorian Calendar out to replace it with the World Thirteen Moon 28-day Calendar of Peace isn’t ludicrous enough, calendar challengers say they are basing their reform on "common sense".

I'm not quite clear. Is this talking about a lunar calendar or a 28-day month calendar? The word month comes from moon and was originally based on the cycle of the moon. I already keep the biblical lunar calendar, which can be either 12 or 13 months to a year, but this sounds like they are talking about fixed 28-day months.

[bk1000]

Just imagine how many more federal holidays we would have! Not to mention an extra guvmint check each year.

[Larry Lucido]

I'd have an eleven month calendar, and get rid of February. Too cold. And too hard to spell.

[chs68]

Hey.....

Here's an idea.

Instead of dividing up the year into 13 "months", maybe we could divide it into 10 months.

We could name the months according to the type of weather each has.

For instance, July could become "Thermidor".

[Salvation]

BTTT of the page.

[Salvation]

Discussion over here.

[Junior]

Okay. So? The Jewish calendar is lunar.

[tnlibertarian]

So will they change how they count the years? And if so, how would they number them? Would it be retroactive? If it were, what would happen to "I Love the '80's"?