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Johns Hopkins professors propose new calendar
Washington Examiner ^
| 12/31/11
Posted on 01/01/2012 5:28:56 PM PST by Libloather
Johns Hopkins professors propose new calendar
By: The Associated Press | 12/31/11 1:02 PM
Two Johns Hopkins professors are proposing a new calendar in which dates would fall on the same days of the week every year.
The calendar proposed by Richard Conn Henry, an astrophysicist, and Steve H. Hanke, an applied economist, begins each year on Sunday, Jan. 1.
**SNIP**
The professors, who also advocate "Universal Time" over time zones, say the new calendar would simplify planning and financial market calculations. They hope to take their proposal to the United Nations and attract worldwide interest.
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KEYWORDS: calendar; hopkins; johns; professor
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To: Cicero
It doesn't shift the Sabbath around at all. The seven-day rotation keeps going as it has been. It provides a leap week at the end of the year every six or seven years, but it's still Sunday through Friday.
Did you look at the calendar?
I usually think calendar adjusters are like duodecimalists or Esperantists; they want a better world, but they're not going to try to shoot us to make it work.
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posted on
01/01/2012 7:10:30 PM PST
by
GAB-1955
(I write books, serve my country, love my wife and daughter, and believe in the Resurrection.)
To: Cicero
Oops... Sunday through Saturday.
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posted on
01/01/2012 7:11:07 PM PST
by
GAB-1955
(I write books, serve my country, love my wife and daughter, and believe in the Resurrection.)
To: cynwoody
The Soviets experimented with a five-day work week, with four days on, one day off; however, they imposed this over the seven - day week, and in Russian Sunday was still called “Resurrection.”
The French Revolutionary calendar tried to make everything decimal, but it was superseded by Napoleon I’s restoration of the Gregorian calendar.
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posted on
01/01/2012 7:13:13 PM PST
by
GAB-1955
(I write books, serve my country, love my wife and daughter, and believe in the Resurrection.)
To: EDINVA
You are right. When you need a really good hospital, Johns Hopkins is the place to go.
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posted on
01/01/2012 7:14:37 PM PST
by
GAB-1955
(I write books, serve my country, love my wife and daughter, and believe in the Resurrection.)
To: Libloather
F’em...the professors...they are part of the problem...all problems...
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posted on
01/01/2012 7:16:40 PM PST
by
GGpaX4DumpedTea
(I am a tea party descendant - steeped in the Constitutional legacy handed down by the Founders)
To: JRandomFreeper
I am using the Mayan. At least for a few months.
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posted on
01/01/2012 7:17:09 PM PST
by
Vermont Lt
(I just don't like anything about the President. And I don't think he's a nice guy.)
To: Libloather
(BO and AO) Before Obama and After Obama no doubt
To: Vermont Lt
“I am using the Mayan. At least for a few months.”
Only because the guy cutting info into it ran out of room :)
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posted on
01/01/2012 7:19:49 PM PST
by
GGpaX4DumpedTea
(I am a tea party descendant - steeped in the Constitutional legacy handed down by the Founders)
To: Libloather
Sounds like tho old George Carlin news item about scientists who discovered a new number between 6 and 7.
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posted on
01/01/2012 7:22:38 PM PST
by
Some Fat Guy in L.A.
(Go Steelers (what's the baseball team called again?))
To: EDINVA
None of them are any good for most people with cancer...
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posted on
01/01/2012 7:22:42 PM PST
by
GGpaX4DumpedTea
(I am a tea party descendant - steeped in the Constitutional legacy handed down by the Founders)
To: MCF
I’ve always thought that Spring should start on January 1st.
To: Vermont Lt
The best part about the Mayan calendar thing in 2012? If they are right, we're all gone. If I'm right, I can make fun of them in 2013. And I surely expect to ridicule me some idiots. It's good for them. Builds character.
/johnny
To: Libloather
Areest these clowns for governmental interference. Only the government is allowed to fix what ain’t broke, until it is.
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posted on
01/01/2012 7:26:59 PM PST
by
ApplegateRanch
(Made in America, by proud American citizens, in 1946.)
To: SamAdams76
The extra month idea sucks. Why not do 2, two week periods? One in the summer and one in the winter.
To: FDNYRHEROES
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posted on
01/01/2012 8:28:08 PM PST
by
ASA Vet
(Natural-born citizens, are those born in the country, of parents who are citizens. De Vattel)
To: Libloather
Couldn't we just
unsplit the atom
in a ozoneless blackhole cyclotron
causing time to gradually slip backwards
for a few millennium?
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posted on
01/01/2012 9:41:31 PM PST
by
bksanders
(Spewing Forth Vitriol at the Speed of Spit)
To: EDINVA
If you or a loved one had a rare life-threatening disorder, youd suddenly be awfully glad JH is there. I doubt I'll ever have any condition that can't be treated by someone in the Houston Medical Center.
To: Libloather
I’m sure we’ll figure out how to go from Thursday to Sunday one year, Monday to Sunday the next.
To: Mustang Driver
“Dont they know there is a lot of money to be made in making calendars obsolete every year?”
While I did enjoy looking at the Dec. 1964 tool-girl calender above my old boss’ workbench, I’m glad that new ones come out every year!
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posted on
01/01/2012 10:20:36 PM PST
by
21twelve
To: org.whodat
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posted on
01/01/2012 10:24:23 PM PST
by
TheOldLady
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