Re: [OT] Friday the 13th
* Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net> [2009 Feb 10 13:12 -0600]:
> On 02/10/2009 12:49 PM, Eric Gerlach wrote:
>> On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 12:02:21PM -0600, John Hasler wrote:
>>> Teemu Likonen writes:
>>>> But in international communication timezone information is sometimes
>>>> important.
>>> There is no hope of it ever being implemented of course, but what would
>>> really be useful would be a standard whereby dates and times (even when
>>> embedded in text) would transmitted and stored in UTC but displayed
>>> according to the locale of the user.
>>
>> Anyone else remember Internet Time?
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swatch_Internet_Time
>
> Days beginning (near) daybreak, and years beginning on a seasonal
> boundary and having 13 each 28 day months are also good ideas that won't
> get implemented. Too much inertia.
That gets you 364 days and we need one more, which could be a holiday
that isn't a part of any month and every four years we'll have a two
day holiday.
It'll never happen as there are too many superstitious people who'd be
deathly afraid of the 13th month, although that might keep George Noory
busy. :-)
- Nate >>
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