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| Thread ID: 109739 | 2010-05-21 03:24:00 | The Gregorian Calenedar | Roscoe (6288) | PC World Chat |
| Post ID | Timestamp | Content | User | ||
| 886796 | 2010-05-21 10:08:00 | Christianity has lost so much credibility that no one cares what the hump in our calendar was meant to signify. Just like Christmas. As long as we know when the weekends are then its all good. |
Metla (12) | ||
| 886797 | 2010-05-21 10:29:00 | Well, it is all going out the window in a handcart soon anyway. Igor and his ilk will have to peddle their paltry calendar elsewhere, when The head Key appoints a Brash to be Minister of Horology, the old calendar will be gone by lunchtime and we will have Metric Time. Instead of asking people to wait half an hour, they will be offered a bunch of fives. |
R2x1 (4628) | ||
| 886798 | 2010-05-21 11:43:00 | Imagine the fun rejigging telephones for 16 numeric buttons and the international arguments that would arise from trying to name the new numbers! (You couldn't use 11,12,13.... since they are derived from the existing set of numbers.) The DTMF system does have 16 tone pairs. The 4 that don't usually appear on standard phones are labelled ABCD |
PaulD (232) | ||
| 886799 | 2010-05-21 13:03:00 | Always wondered about having a fixed holiday (Xmas) based on an unknown date (Jesus's birthday) and a moveable feast (Easter) on a provable date ( so many Moons and weeks after the New year) | Whenu (9358) | ||
| 886800 | 2010-05-21 13:22:00 | The DTMF system does have 16 tone pairs. The 4 that don't usually appear on standard phones are labelled ABCD And there IS already a defined base 16 number system - hex: 0123456789ABCDEF :p |
george12 (7) | ||
| 886801 | 2010-05-21 21:14:00 | Always wondered about having a fixed holiday (Xmas) based on an unknown date (Jesus's birthday) and a moveable feast (Easter) on a provable date ( so many Moons and weeks after the New year) Politics is the answer. The early church needed a feast to replace an existing pagan celebration, and what we now know as Easter was the result. And because that celebration was fixed by the phases of the moon, it therefore was a moveable feast. Which is why Easter in NZ will mainly be rotten / unpredictable / bleh weather, because the phase of the moon here is usually associated with that weather pattern. Easter should therefore be changed to occur on a fixed date, one that is at a the time of a more settled weather pattern. So those under retirement age, and who need it the most (i.e. school kids and workers), will have a much needed fine weather break. But then we'll be out of phase with the rest of the world ... ;) |
WalOne (4202) | ||
| 886802 | 2010-05-22 04:06:00 | Lets just holiday from October1 through to April 30, so seven months of holiday then work Saturday and Sunday for the rest of the year on double time. I would be a very happy man with that | gary67 (56) | ||
| 886803 | 2010-05-22 04:40:00 | There was this one en.wikipedia.org I suppose we might be using it except Napoleon abolished it AND lost the Battle of Waterloo. |
martynz (5445) | ||
| 886804 | 2010-05-23 00:56:00 | There is of course a nomenclature that doesn't refer directly to Christ's birth - C.E. (common era) and B.C.E. (before common era). I suspect it will not totally replace BC and AD any time soon, but it is certainly in quite wide use. | Tony (4941) | ||
| 886805 | 2010-05-24 03:25:00 | Even then we couldn't point to a specific day when Caesar was born - we don't know exactly how many times the Earth has circled the Sun since his birth. Out of curiosity when is the earliest known date, where we can point to an event and the date with absolute certainty? Some may say the Battle of Hastings in 1066 given Halley's comet was visible then. But even then we still don't have an exact day given it takes the comet some time to pass, and we assume the comet was seen during the battle, as opposed to a week before or after the battle. Any thoughts? |
andrew93 (249) | ||
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