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2006-07-15 21:47:01 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous in Environment

14 answers

depends what you want to do .......

2006-07-15 21:50:26 · answer #1 · answered by missy 1 · 2 2

Counterpoint: Do you think there are enough months in the year? I posit there should be 13 months of 4 weeks each, of 7 days each, plus one intercalary day. Thus we get 364 days, a smoothly flowing year of evenly spaced weeks and months. Every month is 28 days. every month is 4 weeks. Each week starts on a Sunday and ends on a Saturday, as does every month and every year. No more of this ridiculous Gregorian calendar that makes no sense. This month is 28 days, that month is 30 days, the next is 31, then back to 30, 31, 30 30, 31, 30 31, 31, etc. It's SO dumb. Why can't we have a sensible and correctly/evenly spaced calendar? I mean you even get efficiencies and symmetries like a year being almost exactly 13 months AND a quarter being almost exactly 13 weeks (exact, if we don't count the intercalary day). It also makes things like payroll much simpler, since you can do math in whole units in terms of weeks of exactly 7 days, or half months of exactly 14 days, or full months of exactly 28 days. It makes the math just that much simpler.

WHY can't we have this? Because the "church" vetoed it (at least a few times) due to the intercalary day messing with their idea that religious mass of some sort must be held no more than every 7 days apart, and an intercalary day would mean once a year masses might potentially be *gasp* 8 DAYS!! apart! (I hate the idea of an intercalary week every few years one day isn't a horrible thing, but to be off by a week?? Nah.). Did they not consider that they could have a several day mass/fasting session at the end of the year in line with the extra day?? Would that violate some hallowed rule? It doesn't say you can't worship MORE often than every 7 days...

As to hours in the day. Well, the day is fairly arbitrarily split up. I see little reason to change it. The year is split up into days, or rotations of the earth, subdividing days has no such simple sensible divisions... And day/night cycles vary based on seasonality. So, our current system seems to work fine. Of course different cultures have different measures of how long "significant time periods" are.

On western society, being 5 minutes late to a meeting is a horrible offense. In some other cultures, nobody cares if you're up to 20 minutes to half hours late. It's all kind of subjective.

My 2c.

2006-07-15 21:58:10 · answer #2 · answered by Michael Gmirkin 3 · 0 0

I think there are enough hours in the day, but I wish the "business" day didn't start until about 10am because I'm not much of a morning person!

2006-07-16 16:36:29 · answer #3 · answered by melissa 3 · 0 0

nope. I need 6 more hours since they get wasted while I sleep.

2006-07-15 23:31:00 · answer #4 · answered by Dhruv Kapur 2 · 0 0

at one point in my life i would have said no,but as circumstances changes i now say there is not enough time of night

2006-07-15 21:52:15 · answer #5 · answered by ? 4 · 0 0

The earth is slowing down,so time will be longer.When your young time seems slow,when your old,time seem to fly by.Before you know it its over.You say wow where did all the time go.

2006-07-16 10:05:44 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

no...it is too little
8 - 10 hrs at office
8 hrs sleeping
4 - 6 with family
that is too little

2006-07-16 18:33:16 · answer #7 · answered by fzaa3's lover 4 · 0 0

YES, sometimes a little long, or to short.

2006-07-15 22:47:53 · answer #8 · answered by elliebear 7 · 0 0

useless quaction.
can you change it. if it is not enough.
you can change it by redusing the duration of a hour. it is also useless

2006-07-15 22:35:21 · answer #9 · answered by hemantha14 2 · 0 0

I sometimes think there is too much Hr,

2006-07-15 21:50:35 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

yesss, coz u have time for YAHOO 7 answers...

2006-07-15 21:51:19 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

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