Re: date bug?

On Tue, Jun 01, 2010 at 02:32:26PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote:
That's why whomever came up with the complete idiocy of breaking up 52
weeks into 12 irregularly-sized months, days starting in the middle of
the night and years in the middle of winter, should br brought behind the
barn and flayed alive.

But, it isn't even 52 weeks. It's 52 weeks + 1 day, except in a leap
year, when it's 52 weeks + 2 days.

We need a new calendar system where 1 orbit of the sun really is 1 year,
rather than 1 year + ~6 hours. Or ignore the sun for calendrical systems
and switch to a lunar system. I suppose we could just make an hour about
0.000683 times longer.

Cheers,
Tom

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