Comments on: I actually kinda think this is a good idea… http://www.mindonfire.com/2008/05/05/i-actually-kinda-think-this-is-a-good-idea/ Religion, SF, and Other Speculative Fictions. Thu, 09 Feb 2012 18:55:49 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 By: Elaine http://www.mindonfire.com/2008/05/05/i-actually-kinda-think-this-is-a-good-idea/comment-page-1/#comment-17718 Elaine Tue, 06 May 2008 03:32:33 +0000 http://www.mindonfire.com/2008/05/05/i-actually-kinda-think-this-is-a-good-idea/#comment-17718 Yeah, I know calendars are arbitrary. Which is why I don't want a new one introduced. I'd have to remember new stuff. And, yeah, I know that rhyme...it just irks me that I still have to resort to it at my age to remember that information. Although, if we could take the whole month of leftover days off, I could consider the change. Can you tell that I need a vacation? Even though I just had a week off work week before last. :) Yeah, I know calendars are arbitrary. Which is why I don’t want a new one introduced. I’d have to remember new stuff.

And, yeah, I know that rhyme…it just irks me that I still have to resort to it at my age to remember that information.

Although, if we could take the whole month of leftover days off, I could consider the change. Can you tell that I need a vacation? Even though I just had a week off work week before last. :)

]]> By: xJane http://www.mindonfire.com/2008/05/05/i-actually-kinda-think-this-is-a-good-idea/comment-page-1/#comment-17714 xJane Tue, 06 May 2008 00:07:53 +0000 http://www.mindonfire.com/2008/05/05/i-actually-kinda-think-this-is-a-good-idea/#comment-17714 hehe, see switching to metric for me was awesome. No more remembering how many whats to a what: there's 100! End of story! (or 10, or 1000, but always multiples of that, which made it perfect for my anal self.) I'd like there to be 10 hours in a day, 10 days in a week, 10 weeks in a month, and however many months fit into a solar year; if there are leftover days, we should just have one final month of make-up days. My mother taught me<blockquote>Thirty days hath September... April, June, & November. All the rest have thirty-one [and something about February which was supposed to rhyme but never did & that annoyed me]</blockquote>which I still recite when trying to figure out what day or how many days or when what is or whatever. But it's still so illogical! Or, or! This would be logical, too: count months of lunar cycles! And again, however many fit into a solar year, there you go. Calendars are just so arbitrary that it irks me. I mean, time is our construct, so we might as well have it work for us, neh? hehe, see switching to metric for me was awesome. No more remembering how many whats to a what: there’s 100! End of story! (or 10, or 1000, but always multiples of that, which made it perfect for my anal self.) I’d like there to be 10 hours in a day, 10 days in a week, 10 weeks in a month, and however many months fit into a solar year; if there are leftover days, we should just have one final month of make-up days.

My mother taught me

Thirty days hath September…
April, June, & November.
All the rest have thirty-one
[and something about February which was supposed to rhyme but never did & that annoyed me]

which I still recite when trying to figure out what day or how many days or when what is or whatever. But it’s still so illogical!

Or, or! This would be logical, too: count months of lunar cycles! And again, however many fit into a solar year, there you go.

Calendars are just so arbitrary that it irks me. I mean, time is our construct, so we might as well have it work for us, neh?

]]> By: Elaine http://www.mindonfire.com/2008/05/05/i-actually-kinda-think-this-is-a-good-idea/comment-page-1/#comment-17710 Elaine Mon, 05 May 2008 18:23:54 +0000 http://www.mindonfire.com/2008/05/05/i-actually-kinda-think-this-is-a-good-idea/#comment-17710 You know, I have enough trouble operating in the current system. You know, remembering which months have 30 days and which have 31 days, things like that. Change to another one, and I won't be able to function at all. It's like switching to metric. I've been exposed to degrees C as well as degrees F for years now, but I still don't connect what air temperatures feel like in terms of degrees C any more than I ever did. I get that a meter is slightly longer than a yard, but it still doesn't compute in practice for me at all. Neither do pounds versus their metric equivalents. Maybe it's just a number thing. I have to write about various currencies and their relative values every day for work, and have had for a couple of years now, but I still have to sit and think about it before figuring out which have advanced or declined versus others. So, please, no. Don't change the way I have to deal with calendar dates. Pleeeeese? :) You know, I have enough trouble operating in the current system. You know, remembering which months have 30 days and which have 31 days, things like that. Change to another one, and I won’t be able to function at all.

It’s like switching to metric. I’ve been exposed to degrees C as well as degrees F for years now, but I still don’t connect what air temperatures feel like in terms of degrees C any more than I ever did. I get that a meter is slightly longer than a yard, but it still doesn’t compute in practice for me at all. Neither do pounds versus their metric equivalents.

Maybe it’s just a number thing. I have to write about various currencies and their relative values every day for work, and have had for a couple of years now, but I still have to sit and think about it before figuring out which have advanced or declined versus others.

So, please, no. Don’t change the way I have to deal with calendar dates. Pleeeeese? :)

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