{"id":2940,"date":"2011-10-05T08:00:13","date_gmt":"2011-10-05T07:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.widmann.org.uk\/?p=2940"},"modified":"2011-10-05T08:00:13","modified_gmt":"2011-10-05T07:00:13","slug":"happy-new-kiloday-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/happy-new-kiloday-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy New Kiloday!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If <a href=\"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/2007\/09\/20\/473\/\">metric time<\/a> had been introduced as I suggested, today would be the beginning of kiloday 80.<\/p>\n<p>So Happy New Year (or should that be Happy New Kiloday?)!<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a very special day, of course.  The beginning of kiloday 70 took place on the 19th of May 1984, so quite a lot has happened in the past myriaday (metric decade), and I guess the celebrations last night would have rivalled the millennium parties if only this calendar had been adopted already.<\/p>\n<p>I actually wonder whether myriadays would be a better way of remembering history than either decades or centuries &ndash; have a look at this:<\/p>\n<table>\n<tr>\n<th>First day<\/th>\n<th>Old calendar<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>70,000<\/td>\n<td>19 May 1984<\/td>\n<td>Collapse of communism, rise of Islamist terrorism and globalisation<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>60,000<\/td>\n<td>1 January 1957<\/td>\n<td>The Cold War, building the welfare state, oil crisis<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>50,000<\/td>\n<td>16 August 1929<\/td>\n<td>The Depression and WWII<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>40,000<\/td>\n<td>31 March 1902<\/td>\n<td>The build-up to WWI, the war itself, and the boom afterwards<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>30,000<\/td>\n<td>12 November 1874<\/td>\n<td>The second industrial revolution<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>20,000<\/td>\n<td>27 June 1847<\/td>\n<td>Revolutions and civil war<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p>It&#8217;ll be interesting to find out what will happen in this metric decade, which will end on the 19th of February 2039 (by which time I&#8217;ll be 67 years, or rather 24 kilodays old).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If metric time had been introduced as I suggested, today would be the beginning of kiloday 80. So Happy New Year (or should that be Happy New Kiloday?)! It&#8217;s a very special day, of course. The beginning of kiloday 70 took place on the 19th of May 1984, so quite a lot has happened in the past myriaday (metric decade), and I guess the celebrations last night would have rivalled the millennium parties if only this calendar had been adopted already. I actually wonder whether myriadays would [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[159,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2940","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-en","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2940","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2940"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2940\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}