[C19fan]

Another Year Zero freak. His vision is an anchro-libertarian dream. Instead of the 7 day week let each individual or institution define their own week. If Google wants a 10 day week like the French Revolutionaries let them have it. One slight problem is the author leaves out the impact of laws and regulations based on the 7-days week, for example, 40 hour work week.

[Nachum]

Why the seven day week? Something to do with the Bible? The Sabbath?

Nah.

[Steely Tom]

They already tried this, during the French Revolution.

They did away with the 60-minute hour, the 24-hour day, the 7-day week, the 12 months. Everything became powers of ten. Out with the old, in with the new.

You can see how that stood the test of time.

These liberals. Ignorance is strength, indeed.

[PapaNew]

What kind of nonsense is this? The week was instituted by God himself and goes back as far as recorded history, the Bible, in the first chapter of Genesis.

However, this kind of nonsense is prophesied to be implemented in the last days (Daniel 7:25), "but not yet."

[Telepathic Intruder]

Touch my seven day week, and that hand won’t touch anything again.

[Vigilanteman]

The 10 day week of the French Revolution worked out so well, didn't it?

And what's this arbitrary thing of making everyone abide by a tyrannical decimal system just because man was blessed with 10 fingers and 10 toes each? How about the sloths and the undulates and all the species with fewer digits?

[ImJustAnotherOkie]

5 day week, two days off, 3-10 hr days.

Work hard play hard.

Also election day would be a forced national holiday.

[chajin]

But why do we observe the week?

Because God says so.

Neil Verwey, the late founder of Japan Mission, once told the story about a Japanese woman who was grateful for the God who had established Sundays, since prior to Christianity coming to Japan, there were no weeks, and people were lucky to get a day off once a month. Christianity liberates, wherever it's tried.

[BitWielder1]

I've seen this suggestion crop up every few years since I was a toddler.
Somehow, a 10-day week, a 100-second minute and a 100-minute hour and whatnot was supposed to be easier.
It was unnecessary then, even more unnecessary now when computers are doing all the calculations.

[djf]

I believe it is based on the lunar cycles.

You know, howling at the full moon and all that...

[PapaBear3625]

I’m going to guess that humans work best if we have a day of rest every seven days, and that going nine days before getting our day of rest will tire us out too much.

[Sequoyah101]

forget about it. It is bad enough now with people who don’t know when to give it a rest. I work with freaks who don’t know anything about business hours. I’m not playing.

[COBOL2Java]

I think we should go to Centaurian time. Standard thirty-seven hour day. Give it a few months. You'll get used to it... or you'll have a psychotic episode.

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

You know what they should get rid of. Time zones and daylight savings time. The U.S. should abolish 2 of the 4 time zones and just have an Eastern and Western time zone with the Mississippi River being the dividing line. Abolish Daylight Savings Time altogether.

Productivity would shoot through the roof.

[longtermmemmory]

Egyptian had a 9 day work week.

this is the “people are just slaves” mentality. Family is illegal, rest is illegal, just work 365 like an obedient slave.

[JimRed]

I don’t remember God’s Bible mentioning what happened on the eighth day, only the first seven. I guess there is always the bris...

[xrmusn]

Didn’t the Navy somewhat ‘toy’ with this in regards to the Nuclear Submarine Crews that were capable of being submerged for ‘weeks/months’ at a time?

[TalBlack]

A not terribly well veiled attack on Genesis. This fool thinks that replacing order with disorder will somehow work.

[APFel]

Slate: The place for every dumb idea.

[IronJack]

Commandment Four: Remember the Sabbath Day to keep it holy. Six days shalt thou labor and do all they work. But the seventh say is the sabbath of the Lord thy God.

That’s a good enough reason for me.

If you want to mess with something, why not change to 10 36-day months (or 12 30-day months) with a five-day “fallow period” at the end to round out a year? The months were originally aligned with moon phases, which no one really cares about anymore and whose 29.5-day cycle is not reflected in the calendar months anyway.

[dangerdoc]

Will they back off if we just call them quarter moons?