While fixing everything about times and dates seems great in the abstract, these guys sound approximately like the French revolutionaries proposing their new calendar.<p>And at least the French came up with new names when they were doing things differently. The headaches that come from relabeling the calendar -- to one that looks confusingly the same, except that &quot;January 1&quot; has a different meaning than it used to -- would probably cause a century of bugs and confusion.