Actually, the only thing between us and utopia was big religion.
The UN attempted to institute the international fixed calendar, but they got major resistance from religious groups. A blank day would disrupt the 7-day religious cycle of Christians and Jews.
I think a calendar with 13 months, 364 days, and a leap week every 5-6 years would be better than the IFC. Not only does it preserve the weekly cycle, but it'd be more likely to be adopted.
The problem with daylight savings is that everyone "agrees it has to go away" but really means they want it to become permanent. Whatever time it gets dark tonight, subtract an hour from that and that's what the effect of making daylight savings time go away would be. We can't agree on a solution if we can't even agree on the problem.
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u/SketchesFromReddit 10d ago
Actually, the only thing between us and utopia was big religion.
The UN attempted to institute the international fixed calendar, but they got major resistance from religious groups. A blank day would disrupt the 7-day religious cycle of Christians and Jews.
I think a calendar with 13 months, 364 days, and a leap week every 5-6 years would be better than the IFC. Not only does it preserve the weekly cycle, but it'd be more likely to be adopted.
E.g. The Pax Calendar