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September 22nd, 2005
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| Centurion | Post; Decimal CalendarSince HooHaa (  ) broached the subject in a recently locked thread, I thought I'd continue the discussion in this more BS appropriate location.HooHaa ( ) is heading a national effort to change October to Octember since it better matches surrounding months and it's just a cool sounding month. I, however, propose we go a step further and move to a decimal calendar (to heck with all those solar worshippers).I say we combine March and April into Mapril (none of you will really miss one more march anyway, will you?) and October and November into Octember. Then we give each month 36 days except May-September which will have 37 (go summer !!!). This would give us 10 (count them, 10) months with very easy to remember day counts and still have 365 days in a year. This would remove the last major argument against going with a base 10 system for measuring everything.  Whaddya think?
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September 22nd, 2005
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| Tribuni Angusticlavii  | ok first off. you put way too much thought into this one. we shall stick with the gregorian calendar. it is not a sunworshipping calendar (that is unless Pope Gregory deceived us all) we have not found much fault with it, therefore, it shall remain.
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September 22nd, 2005
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| Centurion | if you do all that craziness, what happens to april fools day  ...you just screwed us out of the best holiday on earth.
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September 22nd, 2005
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| Tribunus Laticlavius | If there is to be four weeks in every month should we not have an extra month in the calender bringing it up to thirteen months of in a year. then we could run a competition in naming the extra month, any ideas on what you would call it.
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September 22nd, 2005
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| Centurion | What would be wrong with Mapril Fool's Week? |
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September 22nd, 2005
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| Nuclear Duck Hunter  | Quote:
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September 24th, 2005
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| Chief Engineer | Before deciding on any change, would somebody please explain fsm (fisherman standard measurement). Is that like some kind of Daylight savings time for months?
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September 24th, 2005
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| Centurion | FSM is the unit of measurement my dad used when describing the size of fish that got away. 12 inches sae ------------------------ 12 inches fsm ------------  |
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September 24th, 2005
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| Tribunus Laticlavius | but i get my license in march! without march, i would have to refigure out when i get my license! i say NO
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September 24th, 2005
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| Tribunus Laticlavius | Check this out http://www.crowl.org/Lawrence/time/months.html#January I tell ya friends, when it comes down to naming months it should stay the way it is. I mean what will happen to all the holidays if we move things around? Thanksgiving will no longer be the 4th thrsday of November, Christmas will no longer fall on December 25th, etc etc. KEEP IT AS IS !! hehe be well all
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