(Forewarning: This idea would only be good IF no one cared about the patterns of darkness and light.
Or... this COULD actually be THE SOLUTION for shift work equity between the off-shift workers and the current priviliged class of "day-lillies"
Hey... think about it off-shift workers... unite! )
Who can tell me what is wrong with this idea?
CORRECTING OUR SYSTEM OF TIME
With regard to time, the hours are the earth spinning while the sun shines on it, and the years are how long it takes the earth to orbit the sun. The number of months and the number of days in them is just how the establishment decided to divide it up.
We like our system of seconds, minutes, hours, days, weeks, months, and years. But there’s a problem with our time system – our base unit, the second, is just a teensy bit too short and it needs to be made a bit longer to fix the problem. It’s simple really. I’ll explain.
See, our current year is 365 days x 24 hours x 60 minutes x 60 seconds =
31,536,000.00000 seconds per year.
The problem is it actually takes our planet 365.2421891 days to go around the sun and that ends up being 365.2421891 x 24 hours x 60 minutes x 60 seconds = 31,556,925.824 seconds per year
It’s really not that much of a difference, but it causes cumulative problems. The difference between those two numbers is:
31,556,925.824 - 31,536,000.00000 = 20,925.824 seconds per year.
Our current standard for the second is too small, so it leaves a hole every year, which requires additional seconds to fill. But if we were to make our standard for seconds precisely just a bit fatter, then the correct number of seconds would match our natural Earth year, and our system would be almost perfect.
Here, I’ll show you how easy it would be to fix this:
Our new seconds, need to be larger to fill the hole left by our current seconds. So, we need to know how much would we have to change the calibration reference duration of a second to correct that error between our calendar and our actual Earth orbit time. So, We need to know the factor of the wrong number that this difference is. So, we divide the difference number by the wrong (too small) number of seconds.
20,925 / 31,536,000.00000 = 0.0006635318
Next, we add 1.0 so we include the original number in the correction multiplier that we make, so, 1.0006635318 becomes our increasing adjustment factor.
Now, what is the current calibration reference duration standarf for our current second?
There are two:
So, applying our multiplication factor of 1.0006635318, our new standards become:
Now, all we have to do is get every time keeping device in the entire world to match these new standards, and our Earth orbit time will match our Calendar… until our Earth orbit slows some more.
Will that be or credit?
Leap year accounts for difference.
If your second is "fatter", then your 60 second minute and sixty minute hour would be "fatter" requiring less hours for the day of Earth rotation. Do your own calculation for exact figure, but like the day would only be 23 hours in a rotation rather than the approximate 24 hours.
Yes but the problem is more basic than that. The real problem is that there are not an exact number of days, the time it takes the earth to rotate, in a year. So that if you make the seconds line up with the days, they will not line up with the year, and if you do make the seconds line up with the year, then there will not be an exact number of seconds in a day. And then there is the noise and the slowing of the earth. It is not a solvable problem. PS. there is a small error at the beginning, the hours are not "the earth spinning while the sun shines on it," that is the days, of which the hours are sub-divisions.
For another improvement which works very well. Why not have thirteen months of twenty eight days. That makes three hundred and sixty four days, and you then add one extra day, called new years day or leap day, at the beginning of the year, every year, except leap years when you have two, to adjust the years and days as needed. New years day/days are a holiday and are not counted as weekdays. (They are just called new years day.) Then every year and every month would begin on the same day of the week, and nobody would ever need to buy more than one calendar in a lifetime.
@EarnestEccentric Have you looked up the difference between a sidereal day and a solar day ? I think that would interest you.