Calendar Reform (Encore)
Everything Everywhere Daily: History, Science, Geography & More
Gary Arndt
4.7 • 2.3K Ratings
🗓️ 7 May 2026
⏱️ 16 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | The following is an encore presentation of Everything Everywhere Daily. |
| 0:07.4 | Our calendar and system of keeping time are rather unique. It isn't nice and tidy like the metric |
| 0:13.2 | system. It's a collection of odd units, sleep years, and rotating calendars. As such, many people |
| 0:19.0 | throughout history have thought that they could do better. So they've |
| 0:22.1 | made proposals for changing our calendar, some of which would be very different from what we are |
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| 1:51.5 | If you've been listening to this podcast long enough, you know that I frequently say that something will be the subject of a future episode. |
| 1:58.4 | This is such an episode. I've done many episodes covering the origins of the calendar and timekeeping. |
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