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quantum wrote:
Imagine the complications of changing every clock in the world- how many do you own? Computers, phones, almost all electronics, remember the Millennium bug trauma?
this says more about our attachments. How long have computers been a familiar part of our lives at home and work? fifteen years? twenty? After such a relatively short period of time, are we really so inextricably bound to them?
I remember the switch from imperial (arbitrary faulty system) for metric (also arbitrary and faulty, but more eloquent and easier to remember - the increase in hard drive space on computers has given us reason to repeat all those evasive prefixes - kilo-, mega-, giga-, tera-).
why assume that a change to another form of measurement of time will be so apocalyptically disruptive? It's one possibility, but not an inevitable one.
I've been hem-hawing over this whole subject because of the new-ageness that permeates much of it. Maybe it will attune us to the galactic centre, stretching the kuxac sum to the Sun to the core of the milky way, hunab ku. Nice bonus, if that should happen, but I'm not convinced it's a selling point to farmers in Bangladesh.
the regularity of the measure is. That includes tidying up our monthly and annual schedules, whether it be economic, domestic, civic or personal agendas according to a regular, easily predictable schedule. This makes anticipation more intuitive, as a regular rhythm, once one gets used to it, settles into our subconscious, requiring less of our conscious attention.
The moon cycles are a whole other can of worms, and trying to synchronise the lunar and solar calendars has been a noble exercise throughout history.
The 13-moon dreamspell calendar proposes that they have done so, although the moon's 28 day cycle is one in which its axial position returns to the same location in the sky or somesuch. Nothing easily observable from Earth. I find its usefulness limited.
really - why so much attachment to our pieced together mishmash of cultural detritus dating back to the pre-Etruscans? I understand there are reservations due to the disruption. Gregory XIII eliminated 10 days from October (maybe it was November) 1582. It lead to riots.
What disruption do you fear? tedium? media over-hype? a new year's devoid of celebration? those are the results of all the panic over Y2K. lots of fear over, what turned out to be, nothing. The potential may have been there, but in the end, it was nothing.
have you seen the state of the world? It's already in a critical state of disruption. Does our calendar reflect our cultural chaos more than we realize? does our cultural chaos result from the calendar?
just a speculation.
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