[ale] [OT] Date change proposal

[Scott Castaline]

Preston Boyington wrote:
> 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.
>>     
>
> <snipped>
>
> 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
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Boy, now I really have a headache! DANGER! DANGER! CANNOT COMPUTE! 
CIRCUITS OVERLOAD! DANGER! DANGER! SELF DESTRUCT SEQUENCE LAUNCHED!