(x) the history of calendar reform is insanely complicated and no amount of further calendar reform can make it simpler
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But even in the ideal case, the total amount of potential improvement is far too small to justify the switch.
We choose among imperfect systems, and the best we can do is the imperfect system whose imperfections we fully understand
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A calendar too similar to the Gregorian calendar will be ambiguous. A calendar too radically different will be unpalatable.
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One of these days there'll be an intercontinental thermonuclear exchange and maybe then we'll be able to build a sensible calendar
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