On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 11:02 PM, Joel C. Ewing <jcew...@acm.org> wrote: > John, > If you had read all of the included previous thread context in my previous > response, the context was "the world's eventual conversion to <some date > format>", not a discussion limited to internal date usage by machines. I > would say that makes the tolerance of people for the date format highly > relevant and an asset to the objection, not a defect. > > There are of course other strong arguments against universal usage of JD for > dates any time in our lifetime. As long as we remain an Earth-centric and > not a space-centric culture, that makes it unlikely most people would favor > an ordinal-based standard date format like "Star Date" or "Julian Day" which > has no obvious relationship to Earth's annual seasons, when awareness of > those seasons is so important to our physical comfort and survival. > > -- > Joel C. Ewing, Bentonville, AR jcew...@acm.org
Actually, the Islamic calendar is 12 lunar months of 29.5 days on average. So it is shorter than a solar year by about 11 days and the 1st day of the year cycles through the solar year about every 34 or so years. -- Mike A Schwab, Springfield IL USA Where do Forest Rangers go to get away from it all? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
