From this:

Hi folks, world wide!

I'm Dick Henry, a Professor at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore,
and I can't devote a lot of time to calendar reform!

But I have become convinced that the world will be a (marginally) better place if we really implement the C&T Calendar, world wide, on 2006 January 1, and so I'm willing to help in accomplishing this. I hope you'll join me in this ... millions of you...

Here are the stats on the C&T calendar ("Common-Civil-Calendar-and-Time"):

• 7 days/week
• 364 days/year
• the calendar is identical each year: January 1 always falls on a Sunday, and so forth
• time zones would be eliminated
• we would all use UTC

So, when will this start?

...starting 2006 January 1, it is proposed that Universal Time, on a 24 hour scale, be used, everywhere on earth, and forevermore. As a result of this, beginning 2006 January 1, the date and time will always be the same, everywhere, greatly facilitating international understanding...

[what about those for whom the date changes when the sun is overhead?]

...those folks live in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. As things stand, they have an International Date Line to contend with. With my proposal, that will disappear forever. So they gain that!

The less wacky suggestion is "Newton Week", a sort of week-long replacement for the leap day that would appear between June and July every five or six years. That would involve mandatory bacchanalias in which even supermodels or Score girls would be required to be "nice" to people who kinda look like Nicholas Cage in certain limited forms of lighting.

Yes, I made the last sentence up. However, I do see a use for this calenarist's wacky plan...

He says the American Astronomical Society is considering endorsing this plan. Let me suggest even more fertile fields: the local Libertarian Party. C'mon, how difficult could it be to convince Libertarian candidates to become outspoken advocates for calendar reform? Wouldn't that be fun?

"I'm the Libertarian candidate, and I'm running on a platform of calendar reform. And, free drugs."