[ale] [OT] Date change proposal

[Greg Freemyer]

Jim,

You better work fast on getting your new calendar in place. Without it
we only have 4 years (1593 days to be precise) until the end of the
world.

http://www.btinternet.com/~gstray/today.htm

Greg

2008/8/11 Jim Kinney <jim.kinney at gmail.com>:
> This may seem to come out of left field (as do many of my ideas...) but I
> would like some feedback on a proposal to renumber the calendar year.
>
> The current scheme is based on an event that is controversial and not
> exactly well defined time-wise. Further is is oriented around a time period
> that is longer than a solar year. Having the year numbering system based on
> an event that is central to one religious culture denigrates all others.
>
> I would like to propose a new calendaring scheme based around an event that
> represents a human milestone achievement. Granted is tied to the
> accomplishments of a single country but it is clearly a global, human event.
>
> In 1969 of our current counting practice, humans first set foot on a
> non-terrestrial object, the Moon.
>
> Maybe I'm just a science nut but that is a milestone of human achievement
> that would make a better marker for calendaring than a nebulous date range
> of 32 years not well known in the past and not acceptable to some other
> cultures.
>
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