Proposed New Calendar Would Make Time Rational

I thought this was kind of interesting:

http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2011/12/rational-calendar/ :

• "According to Richard Conn Henry’s calendar, eight months would each have 30 days. Every third month would have 31 days. Every so often, to account for the leftover time, a whole extra week would be added."
• "The upshot: Years would proceed with clockwork regularity, with no annual re-jiggering of schedules required. Each day would occupy the same position as it had the previous year and would in the next. Were this 364-day calendar, known officially as the Hanke-Henry Permanent Calendar, adopted on the first day of 2012, both Christmas and New Year’s Day would forever fall on Sunday."
• "Not satisfied with conquering calendrical irrationality, Henry and Hanke take on timekeeping, too. 'The time in Australia is the same as it is for us, but their clocks are set different,' Henry said. 'We’re just saying, "Set your clocks to the same time, because it is the same time."' All the world’s clocks would be set to Universal Time, or Greenwich Mean Time as it’s generally known. Time zones would be abolished, as would Daylight Saving Time, of which Henry is especially not fond."
• "It might be a little strange at first — people living in the western U.S., for example, would mostly go to sleep by 7 a.m. — but people are nothing if not adaptable. Henry observed that the National Maximum Speed Law once seemed unthinkable, as did an end to indoor smoking. And while dates in the western Pacific would change awkwardly in mid-day, at least International Date Line weirdness would be history."

I'm not sure how exciting it'd be to have each day "occupy the same position as it had the previous year and would in the next" or the impact of only having one "5 o'clock somewhere" but I'd love to get off of Daylight Saving Time.

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Ladd Nelson