DANIEL ASSA
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Israel. Givatayim: April 25, 2018
Global unified Year – Global unified Clock
1. Dividing the year into months, weeks and days:
The traditional division of the year into weeks and days is reasonable in my opinion, and work habits which are derived from it almost cannot be changed and need not be changed in my opinion.
The division of the Gregorian calendar into months is not convenient, but it continues to exist as a force of habit. The division into 365 days (approx.) which exist during a sun's year into twelve months creates a problem of different lengths of the months. In addition, the division creates a problem of a number of weeks in a month which is not a round number and not equal in all months. This difference has consequences, for example in calculations of salaries and related wages to those who have a monthly salary calculation base, or for example in calculations of costs and pricing of products when the data about the overhead is monthly.
Therefore, a new division of the year is needed: the year will be divided into 13 months of 4 weeks of 7 days, total 13 X 4 X 7 = 364 days. One special day will be added at the end of the year, to "almost" complete the Sun's year. This day will be announced as an international holiday (can be named a U. N Day – for example). Because this day is always adjacent to the weekend, a long weekend will be created once a year.
Full adjustment to the Sun's year, will still requires leap years as we have today in the Gregorian calendar. This added day will join the weekend of the sixth month and will create another long weekend every few years. This day also, which will be an international holiday, can be named (Peace Day – for example).
- Emphasis and suggestions:
A. The new year suggested will simplify monthly comparative calculations, since the length of the months will be the same. Comparison and calculations of salaries on a daily basis as opposed to monthly or weekly basis will be more accurate and just.
B. The new year must become a unified year for international communication in air, land, sea and space. Therefore it should be adopted as a universal year by the U.N. The new year will be named – "Unified year"(U. Y) and the new calendar will be called "The Unified International Calendar" and will form a kind of universal language on time issues.
C. Any international document bearing a date will have to bear the date according to the new calendar. The abbreviated caption that contains only digits and dots will be the European caption, i.e. from left to right – day, month, and year.
D. A "logo" as a prefix for the new calendar date will be determined. The symbol of the U.N or the symbol of the Olympics can be used.
E. The months will be numbered from 1to13, to-read "first" to" thirteen" respectively. If the United Nations would prefer to give names to months, these names will be derived from unique characteristics from all seven continents (Asia, Europe, Africa, North America, South America, Australia, total 6 populated continents), two characteristics for each continent, and thirteenth for a unique characteristic of Antarctica.
F. Weeks too can be numbered, both in relation to the month and in relation to the year, but more so for scientific and computational needs than everyday needs.
G. The day in relation to the month will continue to be called, one, two….. to and including twenty-eight.
H. The first six days of the week will be named after a prominent feature (other than those used for names of months) of the six populated continents. For example, mountains or significant mountain ridges – Himalayan (or Mount Everest), Kilimanjaro, Alps (or Mont Blanc).The last day of the week will be named "Rest Day" (meaning also the remaining day, which is nice play of words).
I. A difficult problem is the question of counting the years. The dominance of the counting according to the Gregorian calendar is so strong that we can simply carry on counting the years continuously. Although I think we can start a new count from scratch which is not related to any religion.
J. This new year is not supposed to change local calendars and customs. Each country, nationality and religion is allowed to determine the holidays according to their ancient calendar, nevertheless it is recommended that they determine their holidays respectively to the new calendar.
- Dividing the day into hours minutes and seconds – Decimal base:
I suggest changing the current division of the day into hours, minutes, and seconds. The suggestion finally eliminates the Babylonian base and switches to the Decimal base as space measurement system have done a long time ago.
The new division of the day will be to 100 (one hundred) hours.
Both the new minute and the new second will be shorter than the current ones. The new hour will be divided into 100 new minutes and the new minute will be divided into 100 new seconds.
Of course it is recommended to give the new concepts new names instead of calling one "new time" and the other "old time", since it is not possible to reprint all the books that were published in the past.
For example: New hour (1/100 of a day) – Hundredth, in plural – Hundredths
New minute (1/1,000 of a day) – Thousandth, in plural – Thousandths
New second (1/10,000 of a day) – Tenthousandth, in plural – Tenthousandths
- The Old clock looks like this (two clocks per day) :
12 marks around the clock.
Each mark represents 1 hour or 5 minutes.
2. The New clock will look like this (one clock per day) :
20 marks around the clock.
Each mark represents 5 Hundredth.
To summarize: there is no doubt in my mind that none of the ideas that I suggested in this article will be accepted as is, if at all. It will be more than enough for me if any discussion on the subject of re-sorting the time will begin.
Daniel Assa
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