2003-01-25 At the present time, I'm not a supporter of calendar reform. However, I would accept changing the year to 12003. By adding 10 000 tot he present year, and adjusting all past dates, then we would have all historical dates within "positive" (AD) time. We could get rid of the AD/BC designation and just use + and - to designate time before the year zer0 and time after.
The use of 10 000 would place all of recorded civilisation within "positive" time. Also, any "old" dates would be easily converted to new dates mentally by adding a 1 before the year. Thus, my birth year will change from 1956 to 11956. It may be harder to convert BC dates to modern dates, but once done it will be easier to comprehend our historical time line. And most important it will make our calendar independent of any religious deity, and thus more neutral and universal. As for the site, I need to look further through it to see what is being encouraged. John ----- Original Message ----- From: "Joseph B. Reid" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, 2003-01-24 15:41 Subject: [USMA:24603] Re: review of AAT metrication policy > >The Alliance for the Advancement of Technology has placed a draft of > >its metrication policy in the process review area of the > >www.aatideas.org web site: > > > > http://www.aatideas.org/itinica/develop/process/policy.html > > > >The process review documents describe certain directions for > >development of the Integrated Chronological Applications System > >(ICAS) in preparation for the next ICAS version. > > > >More later, > > > >Ron > >-- > >Ron Stone, programs manager > >Alliance for the Advancement of Technology (AAT) > > > > I had a look at the www site listed above. I could not find out what > ECAS has to do with the metric system. They consider that we are now > living in the year 12003 rather than 2003. They also want to revise > the calendar and perhaps the clock. At that point I gave up. > > -- > Joseph B. Reid > 17 Glebe Road West > Toronto M5P 1C8 Telephone 416-486-6071 > >
