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	<title>Comments on: Adopt a Calendar That Makes Sense? Fat Chance.</title>
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		<title>By: Amos Zeeberg</title>
		<link>http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/discoblog/2011/12/29/adopt-a-calendar-that-makes-sense-fat-chance/comment-page-1/#comment-84604</link>
		<dc:creator>Amos Zeeberg</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Jan 2012 19:55:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Or you could demand divisibility by 3, 4, and 5, and end up using a base-60 numerical system, like the Babylonians. That&#039;s why we have 60 seconds in a minute, 60 minutes in an hour, and 360 degrees in a circle.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Babylonian_numerals</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Or you could demand divisibility by 3, 4, and 5, and end up using a base-60 numerical system, like the Babylonians. That&#8217;s why we have 60 seconds in a minute, 60 minutes in an hour, and 360 degrees in a circle.<br />
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Babylonian_numerals" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Babylonian_numerals</a></p>
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		<title>By: Anonymous</title>
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		<dc:creator>Anonymous</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jan 2012 22:11:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>In defense of a 12-month calendar and 12-hour clock: A base-12 numerical system actually has some nice advantages over base-10. It can be divided more ways for one thing, which is why so many things are sold by the dozen. Unfortunately we&#039;re stuck with that silly decimal system just because ten happens to be the number of digits found on the forelimbs of a bipedal ape.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In defense of a 12-month calendar and 12-hour clock: A base-12 numerical system actually has some nice advantages over base-10. It can be divided more ways for one thing, which is why so many things are sold by the dozen. Unfortunately we&#8217;re stuck with that silly decimal system just because ten happens to be the number of digits found on the forelimbs of a bipedal ape.</p>
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		<title>By: BeholdersEye</title>
		<link>http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/discoblog/2011/12/29/adopt-a-calendar-that-makes-sense-fat-chance/comment-page-1/#comment-84017</link>
		<dc:creator>BeholdersEye</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Dec 2011 01:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I use Dvorak all the time, the typewriter has been dead a long while people, but I can not use it while using Swype (no layout), Metric System only way to go, the decimal (10 hour) clock does work if the world cared to use it, what ever calender you use need to fit 365.25 days in it, hopefully it has a four day work day and a four day weekend.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I use Dvorak all the time, the typewriter has been dead a long while people, but I can not use it while using Swype (no layout), Metric System only way to go, the decimal (10 hour) clock does work if the world cared to use it, what ever calender you use need to fit 365.25 days in it, hopefully it has a four day work day and a four day weekend.</p>
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		<title>By: BeholdersEye</title>
		<link>http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/discoblog/2011/12/29/adopt-a-calendar-that-makes-sense-fat-chance/comment-page-1/#comment-84015</link>
		<dc:creator>BeholdersEye</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Dec 2011 00:37:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Better take the week off...</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Better take the week off&#8230;</p>
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		<title>By: bystander</title>
		<link>http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/discoblog/2011/12/29/adopt-a-calendar-that-makes-sense-fat-chance/comment-page-1/#comment-83996</link>
		<dc:creator>bystander</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Dec 2011 21:31:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I think the World Calendar, proposed by Elisabeth Achelis in 1930, is a much more logical choice than the Hanke-Henry Permanent Calendar from JHU. A week long &quot;month&quot; every 5 or 6 years (you need a computer algorithm to determine which) just isn&#039;t logical to me.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I think the World Calendar, proposed by Elisabeth Achelis in 1930, is a much more logical choice than the Hanke-Henry Permanent Calendar from JHU. A week long &#8220;month&#8221; every 5 or 6 years (you need a computer algorithm to determine which) just isn&#8217;t logical to me.</p>
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		<title>By: Stephen Bounds</title>
		<link>http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/discoblog/2011/12/29/adopt-a-calendar-that-makes-sense-fat-chance/comment-page-1/#comment-83995</link>
		<dc:creator>Stephen Bounds</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Dec 2011 21:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I&#039;m genuinely curious ... how could the calendar be improved?  

Currently it reconciles the three most prominent natural astronomical phenomena about as well as possible (day = time for the earth to rotate once; month = time for the moon to rotate around the earth; year = time for the earth to rotate around the sun) so until we settle multiple planets there&#039;s no pressing argument for change.  I suppose the idea of a month isn&#039;t as important in the scheme of things but even here there are real implications (eg tides).

Now our time system is a different matter, since hours, minutes and seconds *are* arbitrary units.  I can see the argument for a metric version of time in an era where time zones are the cause of many mis-scheduled meetings!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I&#8217;m genuinely curious &#8230; how could the calendar be improved?  </p>
<p>Currently it reconciles the three most prominent natural astronomical phenomena about as well as possible (day = time for the earth to rotate once; month = time for the moon to rotate around the earth; year = time for the earth to rotate around the sun) so until we settle multiple planets there&#8217;s no pressing argument for change.  I suppose the idea of a month isn&#8217;t as important in the scheme of things but even here there are real implications (eg tides).</p>
<p>Now our time system is a different matter, since hours, minutes and seconds *are* arbitrary units.  I can see the argument for a metric version of time in an era where time zones are the cause of many mis-scheduled meetings!</p>
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		<title>By: Jim Neuner</title>
		<link>http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/discoblog/2011/12/29/adopt-a-calendar-that-makes-sense-fat-chance/comment-page-1/#comment-83994</link>
		<dc:creator>Jim Neuner</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Dec 2011 20:57:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Interesting read, but who wrote it?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Interesting read, but who wrote it?</p>
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		<title>By: J.</title>
		<link>http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/discoblog/2011/12/29/adopt-a-calendar-that-makes-sense-fat-chance/comment-page-1/#comment-83993</link>
		<dc:creator>J.</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Dec 2011 20:40:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>What if I got stuck with my birthday on a Wednesday? :( Damn you science!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>What if I got stuck with my birthday on a Wednesday? <img src='http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/discoblog/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_sad.gif' alt=':(' class='wp-smiley' />  Damn you science!</p>
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		<title>By: mjolnir</title>
		<link>http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/discoblog/2011/12/29/adopt-a-calendar-that-makes-sense-fat-chance/comment-page-1/#comment-83992</link>
		<dc:creator>mjolnir</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Dec 2011 20:26:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>the wondeful chaos of nature does not allow for the logic of humans</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>the wondeful chaos of nature does not allow for the logic of humans</p>
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