The English/French counting system (WAS: numbersystemsfromconlangs)

"Mark J. Reed" wrote:
> Besides, at this point any calendar reform is pretty
> much doomed.  Imagine the Y2K bug writ large and you have a good
> idea of the problem.  The Gregorian calendar is a hard-coded
> assumption in too much of the world's vital operating machinery;
> it's not going away.
I don't really think that would be such a problem.  New versions of
operating systems could simply come with both calendar systems, such
that you could set it to whichever one you wanted.  If the reformers
gave a sufficient period of time for the reform to take place, then
almost all computers could have the new calendar as an option by the
switchover, and then it would just be a matter of people going into
their settings and changing it.

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