[ale] [OT] Date change proposal

[Preston Boyington]

Calvin Harrigan wrote:
> 
> I had a few rambling thoughts along these lines a couple weeks ago.  I 
> was thinking about metric time.  (Ducks!)
> 
> The second being the base count, sorta like the meter or gram.  Starting
> at the beginning of the common era.  Anything before the common error 
> would be a negative number.

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ok, then why not go to a 30 day x 12 month = 360 day year?  a circle is 
360 degrees, why not our yearly orbit? (yes, i know that our orbit 
around the sun is not circular)

It's already used by computer models / financial markets and since 
"money makes the world go round"...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/360-day_calendar