Of course, in some places it will be nighttime, but so what? Noon does not have to be the so-called middle of the day. We could still use Greenwich, England as Control Central, so that when it is noon there, it is noon everywhere else as well. We could do away with time zones, changing our clocks back and forth twice a year, and constantly having to figure out what time it is in other parts of the world. I realize that it would take some getting used to, but I wish that the whole world could be put on a common time system where it is the same time everywhere on earth. The animal and plant kingdoms don’t care about time. Time is merely our method of measuring the hours of the day, and since it’s all relative, it doesn’t matter what we do exactly, as long as we standardize it in some way. But once while I was on tour and traveling back and forth between several time zones and making phone calls to friends in various locations, I realized how confusing it is to keep track of what time it is in different places. I understand that with the size of the earth and where the sun is in different parts and at different times of day, we feel the need to adjust the hours accordingly. So I have traveled through many time zones and even crossed the International Dateline three times. I have been around the world-as far north as Alaska, as far west as Tahiti, as far south as South Africa, and as far east as Japan (well, Okinawa, actually). Okay, now that I have reformed our calendar format, let me go a step further and do something about the time.
Of course, there would be agencies and published charts to help you with your conversions, if you can’t figure them out for yourself. So instead of September 5, my birthday would then fall on Virgo 15. We would just convert them to the new dates. The only major adjustment we would have to make is our birthdays, for the sake of preserving the astrological sanctity of our actual time of birth. We could have extended the year for the extra 80 days and started the New Year on March 20 (or 21).
What set the calendar off are the later-added months of July and August, who were named for the Caesars and who are dead and gone now, so the hell with them.Ī good time to change over to the new calendar would have been at the turn of the millennium at the end of 2000. September, October, November and December, for instance, used to be the 7th, 8th, 9th and 10th months, respectively, hence their names. At least half of the month names we use presently are obsolete or inappropriate anyway. The name of the month is the same as its Sign.
The year begins at a specific astronomical designation and each month begins as the Sun enters a new Sign. Why not begin the year on the Vernal Equinox with Aries and go from there? Half of the months would be 30 days long and the other six would have 31, with no need for a shorter month like February. As it stands now, all the Signs overlap two months each. I would change the 12 months to coincide with the 12 Signs of the Zodiac. If I were the Secretary of the Bureau of Weights and Measures and had the power to change our present calendar, this is what I would do.