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(last post: February 04, 2008 - 02:55)
Citizen #29:
Iensâ Ovéir | Re. Calendar Reform: I'm with those who have suggested that it would be rather complicated to remove Talossa from the calendar which the rest of the world uses. I don't see anything wrong with emphasising use of Talossan names for days and months, but I don't believe we need a whole new calendar just for the sake of it. (Also, what if we got terribly suspersitious people looking in who decided not to join a nation with thirteen months?!) Additionally, I've never felt that my menstrual cycle was something worth being the basis of a calendar...
Re. Provinces: As someone who lives in a bitty country, it's disheartening sometimes to notice that pretty much everywhere I visit on the internet is rather America-focussed. Unfortunate, but true. (Um...no offence, Americans. (-: ) Anyway, my point is that until we demonstrably have equal numbers of citizens from every corner of the globe, changing the provinces to reflect land area is going to result is some provinces being bloated. Not to mention, I think it's a good thing if people in a province don't necessarily have all the exact same culture.
Would you also be reccommending changing everyone's province right now? I'm not very involved with mine, but I know some people have put a lot of time and energy into their province, and I wouldn't like to see that shaken up much.
Re. Measurement: I'm all for going to the metric system properly. It just makes so much more sense!!
Re. Time: I don't thing we need something as complicated as Internet Time, nor do I think we need to move to another timezone. What I would like to see is something purely selfish - I can never remember how many hours different to New Zealand time Talossa is, and so counting down times to starts and ends of elections etc. means I have to do, like, maths. (Yes, maths. Not math.) The real-time Talossa/where I am clock in your Time page is very nifty, and would be cool to have somewhere on the Talossan webpages. And, to make things easier for me, it would be nice if when official "Things will start/end at XX o'clock Talossan time" posts are made, there was a link to another page with a list of what the time will be in other timezones. (The only benefit to using GMT time for me is that most of the year it's exaclty twelve hours different to NZ, and thus easier to calculate from.)
Re. Email addresses: Good idea! I'd want it to allow me to pull it in with outlook or with my other email addresses, though, otherwise I'd never remember to check it. Or have a link to the email from Witt, and have the login be the same as for Witt, so I don't need to remember another password, but can easily check it online.
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