Idea 46: Have 2 Octobers in 2007
Pope Gregory XIII - the guy who had our calendar named after himself.
It can't have escaped many peoples' notice that the seasons are changing thanks to global warming. And, at least here in the UK, with leaves still on trees and the sun shining, it seems odd that Christmas is only about a month away.
This is thanks to us continuing to use the Gregorian calendar which was introduced in 1582. Now, the calendar has done us well, and is all scientific and that kind of stuff, but it is also almost 500 years old and things change.
Which is why next year, on October 28th when the clocks are due to go back 1 hour, they should instead go back one month. This one adjustment should be good enough for a couple more hundred years and will ensure that our seasons reflect our expectations and perceptions of what they should be. Christmas will remain on 25th December, although by the old calendar it will be Jan 25th when it is more likely to be colder and more "Christmas-ey".
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Not only is he a lovely welshman, but he is a poet and can be quite forward thinking. He would love the idea of putting the winter back into christmas. You could maybe sell the idea to him by stating that it is only with the colder weather do we start to think of Christmas and, if there were more cold days before Christmas, as any good PR person would know, he would get more bums on seats for a church service, or a church chat sounds friendlier. Actually there's many things he needs to do to market Jesus better, as eternal life is so last twenty centuries, but lets not get sidetracked.
You could also write to all those involved in winter sports and clothing. It's only been cold a week, and Janette from across the way has already bought all her Christmas presents. These sports could benefit from having a delay between the cold weather and christmas as more people would realise that they lack winter equiptment such as skis and St Bernards, and would therefore make appropriate demands sooner, just in time for Christmas.
If you want to take this idea further, I am willing to help you campaign.
PS. I'm not yet sure about this whole vox business. Seems to have too many features.
Welcome William to the nightmarish world that is Vox. I don't know why I started on here, and my laziness means I'm kinda stuck with it. Oh well...
Thanks for your comments. Look forward to reading more. By the way, part of the intention of this site was to not do anything at all with any of the ideas I had. But if you want to take it all the way to the top, then please feel free. The revised calendar might even end up being called the 'Deedsian Calendar' if you did...
Hmmm. That's a little disappointing.
That was kind of the point of this though. Put ideas out in the open and see if anyone wants to do anything with them. Plus I am exceptionally lazy. so quite frankly couldn't be arsed to do anything with any of these.
Perhaps unsurprisingly no-one has felt the need to take any of them yet. But by all means go through some of the previous ones and if you see a business opportunity, feel free to take it and make good with it. This is more likely with some than with others mind you.
It took me some while, and it would have been easier to ask Simon outright, but I've worked out that the true name for the Calender would be McCruddensian. I also quickly discovered that I've ventured into W&K territory in this here Blogosphere. You guys seem so prolific in your blogging that if the blogosphere was the world, you guys have quite comfortably colonised Europe. That is with Account Planners worldwide grabbing the blogging equivalent of Asia and Russell Davies has managed Africa all by himself.
Blimey. Make what you will of that analogy.
Back to October. I still think this is a great idea and had thoughts in the shower this morning on how to implement the idea further. If I find myself the time I will start writing letters.