You advocate a ________ approach to calendar reform...

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( ) lunar ( ) solar ( ) lunisolar ( ) atomic ( ) metric ( ) Luddite


approach to calendar reform. Your idea will not work. Here is why:


( ) solar years are real and the calendar year needs to remain in sync with them
( ) solar days are real and the calendar day needs to remain in sync with them
( ) the solar year cannot be evenly divided into solar days
( ) the solar day cannot be evenly divided into seconds
( ) leap days suck
( ) leap seconds suck
( ) the length of the solar day is not constant
( ) inconsistent intercalation of leap seconds sucks even more
( ) leap seconds have been a fact of life for more than forty years
( ) high-tech applications need far more accuracy than your scheme allows
( ) years which count down instead of up are not very funny
( ) there needs to be a year 0
( ) the lunar month cannot be evenly divided into solar days
( ) the solar year cannot be evenly divided into lunar months
( ) having one or two days per year w...