Thread: New propsed calendar would move Halloween!

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I read an interesting article. It seems that there is a push to standardize the calendar as afar a holidays go. The proposal would be to have every month alternate between 30 and 31 days, instead stead of a leap day there would be a leap week. They have estimated it would save us over 16 BILLION dollars. Halloween would move to the 30th and be on a Monday.

Could you post a link to the article? I'd love to read it and see how they figure it could save that kind of money. Personally I think this would suck I mean if they were talking about changing the date of Christmas everyone would stop it in half a second but if it's Halloween then it's the attitude of "Oh well it's a useless tradition". I know I have a biased oppinion but people keep trying to kill Halloween and it ticks me right off

sounds like a reason to celebrate halloween over 2days im ok with this :]

I'd like to see the article as well.

Add another to the list of folks who would like to read it

Originally Posted by BeaconSamurai

I read an interesting article. It seems that there is a push to standardize the calendar as afar a holidays go. The proposal would be to have every month alternate between 30 and 31 days, instead stead of a leap day there would be a leap week. They have estimated it would save us over 16 BILLION dollars. Halloween would move to the 30th and be on a Monday.

.... I'll worry about this when we get rid of the pestilential nuisance that is Daylight Savings Time. We can't even get rid of THAT. I would say the chances of the calendar being changed in this fashion are slim to none; think of the havok it would cause for people getting government benefits, for instance. We would be able to hear the screams of outrage on Mars.

Here is a link to an article very much like the one I read.

http://www.mnn.com/green-tech/resear...orian-calendar

The problem is that they will be eliminating 10/31 from the calendar entirely. So it won't be a thing of celebrating on two days, there would only be one day of Halloween, on the 30th. Which is pretty lame, but also cool as far as I'm concerned. Lame because...well, wth?!? Who in their right mind could get used to Sam Hain being on the 30th???

Pretty cool, because I'd have no further birthdays...and I'd be perpetually in my late 30's. All my friends, in their 90's, and I'm still 37!

http://releases.jhu.edu/2011/12/27/t...ious-overhaul/

http://henry.pha.jhu.edu/ccct.calendar.html

But seriously, if it stops the banking system from getting over on the people of the world by the estimated $16B reduction they seem to think it would. I'm all for that. Just shift it a little bit, and leave 31 days in October.

Just what I would expect from some college researchers. Everything is always simple to do in the theoretical world where no one expects any type of productivity or results. Missing from this research is the cost of changing over to the new system. All computer systems would need to be changed and you would have to replace any type of electronic device that has a calendar built in.

I'm guessing the initial investment would be a lot larger than $16 billion dollars. It took the IT community over ten years to just get ready for the year 2000. Now go and try to change the calendar and see what happens. Of course I'd be happy doing it since it would keep me employed for the next 15 years changing code.

Having read the article, two things:

*A self-proclaimed "scientist" is endorsing convenience over accuracy? He oughtta be ashamed...

*Yeah.... this has zero chance of happening. Remember when we were all going to go metric? Right. That never happened, unless you're in the medical field.

I won't hold my breath on this one.