Re: Time question on GPS TIME and leap second.

2017-01-29 Thread Richard Langley
WeekDate Calendar is, as I said, widely used internationally, by >>> Companies & Governments, for their planning of business & governmental >>> dates & events. ...making it easy to plan them in advance once, and then >>> leave them, because it's a fixed c

AW: Time question on GPS TIME and leap second.

2017-01-29 Thread Peter Lindner
nts. ...making it easy to plan them in advance once, and then >>> leave them, because it's a fixed calendar. Of course the resulting dates >>> then have to be eventually translated into Roman-Gregorian dates. >>> >>> >>> ...but they wouldn't h

Re: Time question on GPS TIME and leap second.

2017-01-29 Thread Richard Langley
at begins >>> on a Monday, probably so that the weekend won't be split in half.) >>> >>> The ISO WeekDate Calendar is, as I said, widely used internationally, by >>> Companies & Governments, for their planning of business & governmental >>> dates & events. ...makin

Re: Why we should reform the Calendar

2017-01-29 Thread Michael Ossipoff
*The Minimum-Displacement Leapyear Rule:* This is a leap-week leapyear-rule. The common (non-leap) year is 364 days long. A leapyear is 364 + 7 = 371 days long. The leapweek is added at the end of the year, becoming part of that year Epoch: Gregorian January 2, 2017 is this calendar's start, be

Time question on GPS TIME and leap second.

2017-01-29 Thread rodwall1...@gmail.com
business & governmental >>> dates & events. ...making it easy to plan them in advance once, and then >>> leave them, because it's a fixed calendar. Of course the resulting dates >>> then have to be eventually translated into Roman-Gregorian dates. >>> >

Re: Why we should reform the Calendar

2017-01-29 Thread Michael Ossipoff
gt;> Companies & Governments, for their planning of business & governmental >>> dates & events. ...making it easy to plan them in advance once, and then >>> leave them, because it's a fixed calendar. Of course the resulting dates >>> then have t

Re: Why we should reform the Calendar

2017-01-29 Thread Robert Kellogg
versations have suggested to me that Nearest-Monday would be the favorite way to make a fixed calendar. In fact, with Nearest-Monday, the maximum displacement of dates with respect to seasons, is barely more than the ideal minimum that could be achieved by the fanciest leapyear system. I also propose a fancier, deluxely-adjustable sy

Re: Why we should reform the Calendar

2017-01-29 Thread Michael Ossipoff
Here are two (unimportant) objections to the Nearest-Monday year-start system: 1. It's based on the Gregorian leapyear-rule, meaning that it isn't self-contained & free-standing. Mostly an aesthetic objection, and I don't consider it important. 2. It inherits certain properties of the Gregorian C