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Re:Saudi Arabia adopts the Gregorian calendar by pavel_lishin on Tuesday December 20, 2016 @11:48AM (#13221500)
Can't I just hide my clock, then?

It's also weird if you start hacking at 2, and wake up the next day and start hacking at 1095.

Or 1098.

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Re:Saudi Arabia adopts the Gregorian calendar by willholloway on Tuesday December 20, 2016 @11:53AM (#13221540)
Yes but it is helpful for tax purposes! The clock switching from 2 to 1095 means that:

You have survived another rotation of the earth around the sun

and

It's time to close last years books and open a new set and deduct your business expenses against the new

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Re:Saudi Arabia adopts the Gregorian calendar by pavel_lishin on Tuesday December 20, 2016 @12:06PM (#13221661)
But... going from 2016 to 2017 does the same thing.
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