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> sadly we are in mid September here in the northern hemisphere. I am in the south and can confirm we are also in September, will report back with news. /snar
by emp_ 14y ago
> sadly we are in mid September here in the northern hemisphere.
I am in the south and can confirm we are also in September, will report back with news.
/snark
- old_sound 14y agoI'm from the south as well ;)
- delinka 14y agoI really hope this statement by the project author was intended to be funny (as opposed to a serious belief that there's another calendar for the southern hemisphere.) I laughed. And then I realized I know people who would find this epiphanic and insightful.
- old_sound 14y agoI'm fron Uruguay ;)
- hds 14y agoOf course if we did add 6 months (mod 12) then we could have hot July (almost) everywhere. And an australian christmas in June, but it would be worth it!
- Evbn 14y agoIt's discontinuous. To make this work, stretch the months (add/subtract days) so the tropics only have July August and poles only have Jan/Feb. Adjust holidays appropriately.
- TomatoTomato 14y agoAnd you can add/subtract hours and minutes to days so that the sun rises and sets and the same time all year!
- sneeu 14y agoSee: Riyadh Solar Time.
- jeza 14y agoWe had a white christmas in Australia... in July! ;-)
- SeanDav 14y agoThe world is flat, didn't you know?
- gavingmiller 14y agoOur Canadian office managed to convince a couple of team members in our American office that we ran on a 20 hour clock, with 72 minutes in an hour. That was fun for a week.
- eru 14y agoMetric time!
- kragen 14y agoAs a remarkable coincidence, another hack that Ka-Ping Yee did once was writing a nonstandard clock for his Palm. He spent a summer living 28-hour days: six 28-hour days per normal week, going in and out of phase with the sun once a week. So he needed a way to remember when to go to sleep, when to wake up, when to eat dinner, and so on. When it's 25:00, what do you do? We have a lifetime of intuition built up around clock times on a 24-hour clock. So he wrote a digital clock that used standard-length seconds, but 70 of them per minute, 60 of those minutes per hour, and 24 of those hours per day. So when it was 10:30:59 by his nonstandard clock, he was at the phase of his nonstandard day that corresponds to 10:30 or so of the standard day --- but the clock would then roll over to 10:30:60, 10:30:61, ... 10:30:69, 10:31:00. It was very amusing to see people's reactions upon watching the clock for a little while, especially at the time of week that it was more or less in phase with normal time.