Re: measuring systems (was: Selenites)

Simon Kissane wrote:
>Well, down here in Australia, we celebrate Christmas in the middle of
>summer. I don't think most Australians would mind having it in the
>winter
>sometimes, and I've heard Americans and Europeans talking about how they
>wouldn't mind it in the summer.
>
>We could even adopt a year which is massively out from the present one,
>one that is 3/4 of a year or 5/4. That way, over a period of four years
>you would
>get Christmas once in each season.
I have to agree to this. I can assure you it's not always nice to
celebrate Christmas and New Year at 30 degrees C here in Argentina.
Plus, the firmly adopted use here is to eat the way Europeans and Americans
do -- a lot of hot heavy food and alcoholic drinks, all of which is
completely inadequate for the climate. (Of course that's out fault,
not the Europeans' or Americans'). I'd like having this cycle -- Christmas
in summer, then in the fall, then in winter, then in spring.


>> Personally, I've never found any problem with a solar year of a little less
>> than 365.25 days.  I really see no advantage of an artifical year of 360
>> days - and I just cannot see how it'd make life simpler!
>Make the calendar easier for one thing. Ever tried to right computer
>programs
>to handle date manipulation? The rules are so horribly messy and
>complicated,
>date calculations are much harder than they should be.
Been there, done that -- it's horrible. I wrote a C program to handle
date and time calculations a couple of years ago, and it took me weeks
to find and correct all the little mistakes.

The new programming languages perform these calculations with
their own built-in functions. But anyway the functions take up space
and memory in run-time libraries.


--Pablo Flores

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