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Brilliant Idea! STORY American Professors Propose a New Calendar Starting Monday, Jan Monday, February 24, 2020 Jumada II 30, 1441 AH Doha today 210 - 270 COVER Brilliant idea! STORY American professors propose a new calendar starting Monday, Jan. 1 for every year and everything will fall into place. Or will it? P4-5 HOLLYWOOD BOLLYWOOD Ford on Call of The Wild, Shekhar mulls legal action surviving digital revolution. against Mr India remake. Page 14 Page 15 2 GULF TIMES Monday, February 24, 2020 COMMUNITY ROUND & ABOUT PRAYER TIME Fajr 4.44am Shorooq (sunrise) 6.03am Zuhr (noon) 11.47am Asr (afternoon) 3.05pm Maghreb (sunset) 5.32pm Isha (night) 7.02pm USEFUL NUMBERS Sonic The Hedgehog on Earth with his newfound best friend — Tom Wachowski. DIRECTION: Jeff Fowler They must soon join forces to prevent the evil Dr Robotnik from CAST: Jim Carrey, James Marsden, Ben Schwartz capturing Sonic and using his powers for world domination. 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E-mail: [email protected], Events and timings subject to change 4 GULF TIMES Monday, February 24, 2020 COMMUNITY COVER STORY Time for change, change for time A pair of Johns Hopkins professors believe it’s time to turn the page on the Gregorian calendar in favour of one to really last the ages, including how to settle the leap year conundrum. But will the stakeholders free themselves from the yoke of tradition, asks Meredith Cohn You don’t ever have to buy a new calendar. How much needless work do institutions, such as companies and universities, put into arranging their calendars for every coming year? From now on, they could do it once, and it is done forevermore — Steve H Hanke, ‘ Johns Hopkins University economist ’ Monday, February 24, 2020 GULF TIMES 5 COVER STORY COMMUNITY n 1582, Pope Gregory began a campaign to replace Julius Caesar’s widely used calendar with a slightly more accurate one that was named for him. Most of the modern world eventually agreed, Iand the rest is history. Now a pair of Johns Hopkins professors believe it’s time to turn the page on the Gregorian calendar in favour of one to really last the ages. “You don’t ever have to buy a new calendar,” said Steve H Hanke, a Johns Hopkins University economist who partnered with Hopkins astrophysicist Richard Conn Henry on the Hanke-Henry Permanent Calendar, which would not change from year to year. “How much needless work do institutions, such as companies and universities, put into arranging their calendars for every coming year? From now on, they could do it once, and it is done forevermore.” The idea is simple: Start every year on Monday, January 1. Every other day would fall on the same day every year. Change would be “no problem,” he said, just like Canada’s switch to the metric system. (No comment on the failed US moves to go metric.) The benefi ts would be many: Holidays except for the Fourth of July and Thanksgiving would be observed on a Monday, creating regular long weekends and fewer mid-week disruptions. There would be no battles over the start to the school year or sports seasons and less fretting at corporations over bookkeeping and planning. There would never be another Friday the 13th. (Sorry, Jason.) the commandment about resting on the Care Shelter. No, said Brent Goldfarb, associate Every year would just repeat in a Sabbath. The League of Nations came close Bailey Deacon, a BARCS spokeswoman, professor of management and Groundhog Day movie kind of way, only over but rejected a permanent calendar in 1937 said she still sees new puppies and kitties entrepreneurship in the University of a year, which would be 364 days rather than because of this. getting their month — as well as new Orioles. Maryland Smith School of Business. 365. Most also were a little off , time-wise, even “Those who truly use paper calendars “Whatever the merits of this calendar, it But how? Hanke said President Donald more so than the Gregorian that requires a are marking them up each year with their is not practically important,” said Goldfarb, Trump could issue an executive order. The US leap year every four years. That adds an extra appointments, meetings and occasions, so co-author of the 2019 book Bubbles and government would switch, and the states and day to February — as it does this year — to I would think they would eventually need a Crashes: The Boom and Bust of Technological other countries would follow. keep the seasons in sync. clean slate each January,” she said. Innovation. The White House did not respond to a The Hanke-Henry calendar would make The corporate world that yearns for “It is extraordinarily diffi cult to change request for comment. But Hanke is confi dent 2020 the last of those leaps. But they would stability and effi ciency also could hugely these sorts of conventions without some sort that Trump, known for branding, would come add a week to their calendar every fi ve or six benefi t, according to Hanke’s research. of government coercion, and even then, it around to having his name on a calendar for years to keep up with the 365.24 days it take Observing holidays on Mondays would is hard,” Goldfarb said. “Just as the United the next four centuries or longer. He could the Earth to orbit the sun. save an estimated $575 per person a year in States was unable to shift to the metric bump a pope and Caesar.
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