That will of course make the Earth slightly closer to the sun – hmm, maybe a bad idea. How about instead we slow the Earth’s orbit down, so every year is 366 days, and every year has a Feb 29th! By precisely putting the Earth into it’s correct orbit – we can get rid of this whole nonsense of leap days and years of different lengths. And – the Earth would be slightly further away from the sun, maybe helping this global warming thing a tiny bit.

If we make the year 372 days long, each month could also be 31 days each, further clearing up this nonsense of months of different lengths. The Earth would be slightly more away from the sun, thus cooling it off a little more.

So simply moving the Earth in it’s orbit will fix a whole bunch of problems! Of course, all computer programs would need to be rewritten to know about the new calendar, this would make the Y2K issue look like nothing!

If this all works, then we can start messing with the moon’s orbit, slow it down so each lunar month is also 31 days to match our new calendar. With a little bit of work, we could also move it in it’s orbit a bit, so the full moon is always on the 1st day of each month. Tide tables would be greatly simplified, since they’d be the same each month!

That being said, in the Next Generation era, the second digit of the star date tended to increase by 1 every season, but I don’t think it was ever established that this was canonical.

The year and the day are not the only two measurements of time based on physical events. A month is also based on a physical event, or was in earlier calendars which used 28 days for one month. Now a month is only based on a lunar day (which is also a lunar year because the Moon’s year and day are both 28 days long. This is due to Earth’s gravity, which tidally locks one side of the moon to always face the Earth.)

Something just occurred to me to wonder about: does anyone know what the Star Trek system of time measurement is based on? Never did figure that out.

Besides planting and harvesting, and taxes, does it really matter how long is a year?

If the day equal to 24 hours is arbitrary, and if the 1 hour equal to 60 minutes is arbitrary, then is it also arbitrary that 3600 seconds = 60 minutes while 86400 seconds equal 24 hours?

Think about what did numbers mean and for what were they used? They measured circles long before there was a clock on the wall or 24 hours to the day or 3600 seconds to 1 hour; these are all terms of navigation.

3×2=6; 6×4=24; 24×3=72;

72/2=36; 72/3=24; 3/2=36/24;

384-24=360; 360/10=36

If you think the metric system would be easier for time, consider these simple math functions as base-10 logarithmic functions:

60-24=3.6e1
36/24=1.5
36-24=1.2e1
12/36=3.3333333333e-1
3/36=8.3333333333e-2
3/12=2.5e-1
1/4/12=2.0833333333e-2
1/6/12=1.3888888889e-2

Now here they are as fractions:
60-24=36
36/24=3/2
36-24=12
12/36=1/3
3/36=1/12
3/12=1/4
1/4/12=1/48
1/6/12=1/72

Anything but arbitrary.

A heartbeat.

How about the time it took Welles to say “rosebud”?

If so, we then have the OWRSS, the Orson Welles Rosebud Standard Second! I bet Phil you subconsciously had this very thing in mind when you mentioned his famous quote at the top!

Sliding along, the above are what leaped into my thoughts on this burning question. Got to run now, there are only so many OWRSS in a busy day, so will just close by asking: any second opinions?)