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As a taxpayer in Japan, I want the government to stop worrying about this inefficient calendar system and fully adopt the Western calendar everywhere. That sai
by euske 8y ago
As a taxpayer in Japan, I want the government to stop worrying about this inefficient calendar system and fully adopt the Western calendar everywhere.
That said, I read the people's justifications are similar to those who favor the Fahrenheit system in the US. They say the scale is close to their everyday feel (under the current system, each era is roughly equivalent to one's lifespan) than 4-digit numbers, and therefore more "human". Their emotional attachment defies rationality.
- tjpnz 8y agoYou can fight back by cramming two extra digits into any paper form demanding you express years in this manner.
- contingencies 8y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_8601 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_8601 is elegant because it solves the US/UK date ordering conflict and simultaneously renormalizes for most-to-least significant (which has been standard in the Far East for thousands of years). Depoliticizing time is a good thing(TM). See also: use of BCE suffix in dates: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Era https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Era and the total mess that is attempting to express to a human the actual meaning of an entry in the TZ database. http://tz.iana.narkive.com/QuK9m7tT/tz-proposal-for-a-modern-collapsed-namespace http://tz.iana.narkive.com/QuK9m7tT/tz-proposal-for-a-modern...
- neaanopri 8y agoDefies rationality? It's perfectly rational to prefer a system of measurement that is more meaningful to you.
- rbanffy 8y agoWe definitely need to fix the issue of human lifespans being mostly limited to two digits.