For example, Dolly Parton’s hit song “9 to 5” would no longer be relevant. Henry and Hanke emphasize the many benefits of adopting their calendar and Universal Time, but I wonder if they’ve thought about some of the drawbacks. This extra week would constitute its own mini-month. The Henry-Hanke calendar adds an extra week at the end of December every five or six years. The Gregorian calendar makes up for additional hours by adding a leap day at the end of February roughly every four years.
In the new calendar, every quarter has exactly the same number of days, making financial calculations simpler.Įvery calendar has one major challenge that it must overcome: Each Earth year is a little more than 365 days-it lasts 365.2422 days, to be exact. “Think about how much time and effort are expended each year in redesigning the calendar of every single organization in the world and it becomes obvious that our calendar would make life much simpler and would have noteworthy benefits,” Henry said in a press release. The pair also argue that a more logical calendar would be a boon to business. Under the new Henry-Hanke calendar, March 15-or any other day, for that matter-falls on the same day of the week, year in and year out. Henry and Hanke also want to do away with the standard Gregorian calendar, which many countries have been using since the late 1500s. People would wake up on Tuesday and go to bed on Wednesday. On some islands in the Pacific, the date would change with the sun high in the sky. But jumping from 24 time zones to one would be a much larger leap. In 2010, Russia abolished two of its time zones, dropping the number from 11 to nine. And Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has suggested he may prune more zones in the future. Since 1949, China has had only a single time zone even though geographically the country spans five. Some countries have already moved toward fewer time zones. “Everyone would know exactly what time it is everywhere, at every moment,” the academics write in the January issue of Globe Asia, which they say would facilitate conference calls and business transactions. When I awoke, it would be 11:00-not just in Brooklyn, but everywhere. Then I’d have dinner at 23:30, watch a little TV, and hit the sack around, oh, 3:00. So rather than writing at 4:03 p.m., I’d be writing at 20:03. That would make it the same time everywhere, regardless of the sun’s position in the sky. Astrophysicist Richard Conn Henry and economist Steve Hanke argue that we should all adopt Greenwich Mean Time, also known as Universal Time. Each time zone is 1 hour long, or 15 wide in longitude. The earth is divided into 24 time zones, -11 to +12. GMT was established by international conference in 1884 as International Time. Two Johns Hopkins professors think they have come up with a more rational way to run the planet. UTC is commonly referred to as International Time, Universal Time (UT), Zulu Time (U.S. Australians might be eating breakfast or taking their morning shower. Elsewhere, of course, it’s earlier or later, and people are doing other things. As I sit down to write this post, it is 4:03 p.m.
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