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Background: A year is apparently around 365 days, 5 hours, 48 minutes, and 46 seconds long. This is annoying, since that isn’t an exact multiple of 24 hours. To account for this situation, February will occasionally have either 28 or 29 total days on it. Aggravatingly, the exact calculations for 28-vs-29 are based on several…
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Background: In English, there are names for days of the week (Monday, Tuesday, …) and months (January, February, …). The Issue: But it is not actually necessary for weekdays and months to be named—it’s just a bunch of extra words that serve no purpose! Many other languages (e.g. Chinese) manage with days named “Day #1,…
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Background: By the year 2000, visionary futurists have estimated that over half the human population will live off-world, on another planet or in an orbital space colony. The Issue: Unfortunately, other planets generally have inconveniently not-matching-Earth orbital periods and day lengths. Thus, the calendar months will need to be adjusted in order for our intrepid…
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Background: People frequently listen to music during their day-to-day activities. In olden times, a person was limited to whatever was playing on the radio, but in the post-iPod world, it’s very straightforward to load up an entire day’s worth of personalized music ahead of time. However, such music can’t react to the events of the…
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Background: Most people would probably enjoy some extra time in the day: the ability to sleep sleep for a couple of extra hours and still be on time for your obligations the next day would allow allow even the most exhausting day to conclude with a leisurely “reset.” Unfortunately, one thing that money can’t buy…
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