Leaping Burst of Blogginess, Part 2

Building off the previous Leaping Burst of Blogginess post, I thought I'd explore the Newton heresy a bit further.

The idea of taking away Leap Days all together, and instead instituting a Leap mini-month (named Newton) is actually intriguing and makes eminent sense.

I love the complexity of the system envisioned to 'simplify' things.

They take things even further than having a single calendar for the days of the week, year after year (with a special mini-month thrown in to keep the seasons from drifting too far off the normal dates), they also want a single time around the world. They want everyone everywhere to refer to UTC as local time, thus eliminating 'local time' as a concept. They want people to stop thinking of sunrise or sunset as being near a certain clocktime, and instead think of clocktime as a measure of the rotation of the planet at a specific longitude and not make any local adjustments.

A "9-5" job in London would be a "0900-1700" job, but in NYC, it would be "0400-1200", and in Los Angeles it would be "0100-0900". You'd never have to adjust your watch during a flight again, and you'd always know what time it was if you were calling overseas (though you might forget what the status of the sun would be, and whether or not it is normal waking or sleeping times for that timezone).

All these 'reforms' make perfect sense to an engineer or physicist, but to most everyone else, they seem downright kooky.

It's funny how illogical logic can seem when applied in a manner that refuses to recognize human nature and past customs.

(and calling this 'reform' a 'heresy' is meant as a joke, as a matter of fact, they assure everyone on their website that they keep to a seven day week, so as not to violate the 4th Commandment)