Sounds good to me! And it makes sense. I'd love a weeks paid vacation every six years for 'Newtons Week'....... Using Greenwhich time would take some getting used to, but anybody that's worked graveyard shift is used to shifting their time around But how hard will it be for the 'world' to adopt this calendar? -Fiz
I like the theory, though can imagine people*'s resistance-to-change being its downfall. There's also the reprogramming/replacement of millions of computers/chips. * a.k.a. InDUHviduals
No way would I support that. Other than the fact that I am totallly happy with the current system, instead of adding 1 day in 4 years, he wants to add 1 week in 5-6 years ... Newton week It would also be fairly boring if my birthday kept coming up on the same day every year ... especially if it was on a working day .. would be nice for it to land on a weekend once in a while. Other than the fact that you need new calendars every year, there is nothing major that is wrong with the current system. I would get new calendars every year anyway ....
That'll never happen, and whats wrong with the current calender? He must be boring to want the same calender year on year, I like mine to be different every year, this year I got a computer geek calender for school, and an ITV Soap Babes one for home. And think about changing time on computers, companies are gonna have to chnge the BIOS and the OS so that they are compatible with the new calender, and older programs running on the new system relying on time will go belly up! Nice idea, but I don't support it, and it will never happen - he's gonna have to persuade every government in the world to change, and he's got 360 gregorian ays, 8 gregorian hours, 57 gregorian minutes and 23 gregorian seconds to do it.
As long as programmers are using objects based on the "Gregorian" calendar and the world keeps relying on computers this will never happen. Programmers, by nature, are lazy people. And we are not likely to change EVERY SINGLE instance of code where we use a date just to get rid of leap years or make some scientist somewhere look good because his calendar got accepted.
I quite agree. Ok 2 points on this statement. A. I'm not in the military and B. I don't know anyone who would eat lunch at 5pm 1 hr before you are supposed to eat dinner. Honestly that would seriously F**K up my work schedule. This guy is nuttier than the fruitcake I threw out at Christmas.
Won't happen. Too much hassle to change things, without enough authoritative push behind it. Convention is like a large mass. It has serious inertia, and when shifted pulls everything along in its gravitational wake (Convention also pulls things into its sphere of influence, but that's another story). You change the calendar, you have to change all clock-based systems in the world (including a lot of really mission-critical ones: GPS, Air Traffic Control, even the Internet), and your snazzy DVD Recorder and also your $5000,-- Rolex become obsolete overnight. It makes an impact on religious customs, social behaviour patterns and seriously messes with people's orientation in time. This is why we are still burdened with the less-than-logical arrangements of our PCs, which have to maintain some backward (sic) compatibility with systems that originally were often designed around rules of convention/agreement, rather than inherent logic. It's too much of a change to make in one leap. Just look at how much people are balking at a simple re-arrangement of the physical layout of the motherboard (ATX to BTX), ferchrissakes. That doesn't even affect the PC's functionality in any way; all you are faced with is buying a new case. Big deal. But still, it is meeting with considerable resistance. So changing our whole concept of dates and time, complete with the cultural, social and religious implications and the massive technological change it involves? I think it ain't gonna happen.
I have to say the idea itself makes sense but it has no real practical use, the system we have now works fine and always has done. TBH I think there would be far too much work needed to be done i.e. the re-programming or chips and code as was pointed out before, all for the sake of having every date falling on a certain date. HEHE "newton week" sounds pretty cool, a paid holiday that would be mint!
Well, it is - 1/4 of a day out and the days dont match inter-year. If you consider that "broke" that is. I cant believe you people are ignoring a paid holiday proposal, even if it is every 5-6 years.
No one is going to make it a paid holiday because some random scientist came up with a "clever" idea.
"everyone would get Newton Week off as a paid vacation and could spend the time doing physics" do i need to say more :/
lol yeah im doing my physics degree at manchester and i'll be damned if, on my paid vacation, i'll be doing more physics
