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Resources For Creating Your Own DATE-TIME SYSTEM

^{by Ric Carter}

via MemePool / Reference:

I can't tell if I'd like a 360 degree, decimal, nonal, or metric watch. But I sure wouldn't mind a 28 hour day
Scandal! A grievous misunderstanding of the true nature of the tropical year is being propagated in the most eminent and respectable reference books of astronomy and calendrical matters. *
What day is it? (Brought to you by the authors of Calendrical Calculations)
You've tried the Death Clock...
"We're just past the year 2000." Sez who? The Gregorian calendar isn't the only one out there, you know. In addition to the well known and still used Hebrew and Islamic calendars, there are many others floating around, ranging from the ancient and very non-Western Aztec and Mayan calendars, to the downright goofy Tranquility calendar (with the year zero set to July 20, 1969) and the Thelemic calendar, based on Aleister Crowley's mystical hokum.

via MemePool / Science:

Spring forward, fall back: Daylight Savings Time confuses, enrages, and plunges Trick-or-Treaters in the dark. It breaks computers. It saves lives in the fall, only to take them back in the spring. At least it wasn't involved in the correlation between the dog star Sirius and the sinking of the Titanic. Should we abolish the conspiracy today?
More on the 28 hour day... *

via Google:
Don't forget about the Celtic Calendar and their Year Wheel 'cause ya don't want the Druids or Leprechuans mad at ya, eh? *
The Calendar Zone - Bringing Order to Calendrical Chaos! (or so they claim)
Space Calendar (JPL)
Catholic Calendar (you don't want to miss any damn Saints' days, right?)
DateAndTime Calendar
Cycles In The Universe (lotsa research)

meta-searches via Google:

The above individual links are liable to go extinct without notice, and I'm not going to maintain them much. So here are links to fast Google searches for everything findable about each calendar system:

Other MetaSearches: sacred|holy time and calendar (s)
and endtime (s) and eternity (s)

DIRECTORIES: Yahoo Calendars and Google Calendars and MSN calendars and HQ Time and Google Time and Britannica Time

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