Not actually in favor of ditching the Gregorian calendar, but if you’re going to do it, this isn’t the worst proposal I’ve ever seen and at least one (formerly) major US corporation was able to make it work for them internally for just over 60 years. It wouldn’t make a difference if the calendar was from 1902 AD or 1902 BC as long as it could work for society. They’re all pretty much made up. You draw some lines in the sand till you have a calendar, denominate a few standard units of time labeling some of them with the names of the gods or Kings or Emperors or whoever and count upwards from there.
My only problem with making the switch to any different calendar is no matter how uniform or predictable, you’re breaking something that works pretty decently well to replace it with something that might be different, but probably isn’t actually better.
A calendar is a calendar is a calendar. We’ve gotten pretty good as a society, as a civilization, marking time on the Gregorian calendar, ticking off holidays and making plans around our availability. A change like this would benefit a small number of people at a large up front cost to society, and the supposed benefits for the masses at large ring more as superficial justifications to get this imposed by the government than any kind of genuine benefit.
My only problem with making the switch to any different calendar is no matter how uniform or predictable, you’re breaking something that works pretty decently well to replace it with something that might be different, but probably isn’t actually better.
A calendar is a calendar is a calendar. We’ve gotten pretty good as a society, as a civilization, marking time on the Gregorian calendar, ticking off holidays and making plans around our availability. A change like this would benefit a small number of people at a large up front cost to society, and the supposed benefits for the masses at large ring more as superficial justifications to get this imposed by the government than any kind of genuine benefit.