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Re:A positive leap second will be introduced at the end of J... by morganvachon on Monday January 05, 2015 @02:44PM (#8840666)
Ever since I was a kid, the concept of a seven day week threw me. Way back then I came up with a ten day week, three weeks a month, 13 months a year, and five non-month "holidays" calendar in my head. The five non-month holidays were (if I recall correctly) summer and winter solstice, spring and fall equinox, and New Year's Day.

I never could get around the 1/4 day problem, and still had to account for leap years with a sixth non-month day every four years. It was a fun thought experiment as a teenager interested in math and science though.

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Re:A positive leap second will be introduced at the end of J... by toast0 on Monday January 05, 2015 @04:49PM (#8841433)
FYI, you have reinvented the French Republican Calendar[1], only you missed out on decimal time (1 day is 10 hours, 1 hour is 100 minutes, 1 minute is 100 seconds; 1 second is 0.864 conventional seconds)

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_Republican_Calendar

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Re:A positive leap second will be introduced at the end of J... by aragot on Monday January 05, 2015 @05:50PM (#8841780)
Why are you all looking for base-10 hours, when it's rather the base-10 which is wrong??? Numbers should be switched to base-12. I mean we often need to divide 1kg by halves, quarters and thirds, and it should fall even.
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Re:A positive leap second will be introduced at the end of J... by cortesoft on Monday January 05, 2015 @07:14PM (#8842156)
We should do base 16, though, so it lines up with binary.
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Re:A positive leap second will be introduced at the end of J... by gchpaco on Monday January 05, 2015 @08:38PM (#8842458)
Not divisible by three, which comes up a lot. 12 is superior.

60 is probably best, tho.

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Re:A positive leap second will be introduced at the end of J... by morganvachon on Monday January 05, 2015 @04:50PM (#8841443)
Oh, I'm not surprised it's not an original idea, and I never claimed it was. Just the musings of a child fascinated by the seasons. :-)

edit: And I just realized I had a typo up there; I wrote "13 months" when I meant "12 months". D'oh.

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