Saudi Arabia adopts the Gregorian calendar
I'm going to take this opportunity to shamelessly self-promote my own attempt at creating an entirely new calendar system, inspired by Paul Graham's Maker/Manager Schedule essay.<p>It's called Maker Time, and the current Maker Time is 35. Here is it's pitch:<p>Your clock has it backwards.<p>* Time is infinite, but our time on earth is not.<p>* Clocks should count down, not up.<p>* Time keeping should be based on meaningful celestial events like the year (one earth rotation around the sun) and the day (one rotation of the earth)<p>* Each unit of time should be based on a viable period of work for makers.<p>* Maker Time is reset on January 1st each year. The year is divided into 1095 blocks (1098 in leap year). Every 8 hours the count decreases by one.<p>Here is a browser-based Maker Time clock:<p><a href="http://willholloway.net/makertime.html" rel="nofollow">http://willholloway.net/makertime.html</a><p>Here is a github repo for a simple Maker Time API Flask server and the algo for calculating the current Maker Time if one wants to implement it. I still hope it catches on.<p><a href="https://github.com/willholloway/makertime" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/willholloway/makertime</a>