On 5/19/05, Ray Saintonge saintonge@telus.net wrote:
Unfortunately people might not understand the importance of such a move. There were riots when the change from the Julian to the Gregorian calendar stole 11 days from people's lives. Imagine how irrationally they will respond when we seek to shorten their lives by four years. :-)
It'd be Y2K all over again, and you'd get holdouts in Ohio stubbornly refusing to leave "God's Years", and stockpiling chips.