[ale] [OT] Date change proposal

Charles Shapiro hooterpincher at gmail.com
Tue Aug 12 10:26:46 EDT 2008


That 'sound stage' line made me laugh out loud.

HAH!! It's ALL a conspiracy!  You'll pay to know what you really think!!

-- CHS

On 8/11/08, Jim Kinney <jim.kinney at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 8:39 PM, Sean <drifter at oppositelock.org> wrote:
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>> On Monday 11 August 2008 06:14:59 pm Preston Boyington wrote:
>> > 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)
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> The fun with this is while there is a need to attach a recurring event in
> physical reality to a recurring event in the structured calendar, physical
> reality doesn't play nicely.
>
> For instance:
> Where do we start the year? At the apogee or perigee of earth transit
> around the sun? Some mid-point in between? Or do we tie to a stellar
> alignment of sun, earth and stars?
>
> Too bad our rotation period is not an integer divisor of the orbit period.
>
> Perhaps since the moon has an orbital period of 28 days we could go for a
> 13 months year and a 1 day global party and every 4 years we get a 2 day
> party.
> (I like thanksgiving 'cause it's got lots of food and it's an excuse to
> hang out with friends and eat. Maybe a global food day celebration. Yeah.
> _Everyone_ makes food for 2 other people and they all sit down to eat.)
>
> Of course, poor Charles will miss it all since he hangs with the "it was
> all a sound stage" crowd. :-)
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