Posted on 08/27/2019 2:41:42 PM PDT by Kaslin
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I wonder what the reasoning is behind this idea.
The whole article just blew my mind.
This must be mad fun to read high.
Oops, never mind, let's not give them any moronic ideas like shooting aerosols into the atmosphere to combat "global" ""warming".
WOW! We need massive Drug testing all across academia.
The last madman who tried to revolutionize the calendar was named Robespierre. We know how that ended.
What the hell? Just go to decimal time.
Swatch Internet Time! I have a watch that uses it, so I’m ready!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swatch_Internet_Time
Hell, we’ve used that in the military as long as I remember. We called it “Zulu Time”. But it’s the same thing with a different name.
IMHO, it won’t be practical for civilians beyond those dealing in navigation issues.
Half the earth would get up, go to work, and experience much of their life in the dark.
What a swell idea... /s
Just eliminate all time period.
Does anybody really know what time it is?
Does anybody really care?
And while we are at it lets get rid of the base 60 time base — 60 seconds, 60 minutes, 12/24 hours. Replace it with some kind of base 10 metric system where 100 units equals 1 day.
TIME to ditch all professors and start over.
Obviously they have nothing to do if they have time to fiddle with time.
This doesn't address time zones directly, but it might make me less stressed when they talk about it.
The USA would be a far better place without university professors, a class of parasites who would perish if they couldn’t suck dollars out of the pockets of more useful folk.
Oh, so you go to work at 3:00am. LMAO
The absurdities these days cannot be seen for anything other than to take all the old norms, and cause utter chaos.
It used to be that when idiots spoke, nobody listened. Now they not only listen, they promote the ideas.
I pity the general public and what they have to deal with these days.
I am beginning to think we need to shut down our universities. They are a danger to the world. Seriously!
counterproposal. I hate my phone’s keypad *and* autocorrect.
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