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| Iensâ Ovéir | March 26, 2006 - 16:34 | |||
| RE: Txec's Proposals(#25948), posted by Túischac’h Txec Ereufighleu, [IP Hidden], March 26, 2006 - 19:37. Viewed 165 times. |
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| Túischac’h Txec Ereufighleu Group: citizens (847 posts total) (last post: March 12, 2008 - 12:13) Citizen #33: James O'Neill | > 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?!)... Actaully, there is nothing complicated about it and adopting this calendar will not be for the sake making a change. What we use in Talossa does not effect what the rest of the world uses or does. It only effects us. The only time it becomes and issue is if we deal with the outside world, which we do not do a lot of, or at all, as a governemnt or even a country. As long as we have a clear translation for the calendar and time it will be really easy. When was the last time Talossa interacted directly with the outside world? We, as citizens of our macronations have, but not as Talossan. The issue becomes something as simple as translation. When you deal with the macroworld - if you want to converse with them you translate it into something they understand - whether it is the language, units of measurement or time. The same steps will be taken for the calendar, but this is not something that we will really have to deal with for quite a while. This will be especially viable if a clear calender is kept on our website to reference dates from. I am thinking that you see the advantage of such a system? There are quite a few advantages and it simplifies life a bit. I do not think that we need to change the names at all. I do not see any advantage to it. The existing names work fine, but to overlay Talossan names would be interesting from a cultural standpoint. > 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. What I have shown is an example and a very rough one at that. I am not sure what the most effective way is to reassign the provinces, but I feel that a change is needed, and if we are to change it, we should do so sooner than later. Later will be met with much more resistance and be harder to effectuate. Most of my proposals embrace Talossa being a E-State (Ephemeral State) which not something that everyone ascribes to. > 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.) If I can program a script to handle Decimal Time it is not complicated! =) The Decimal Time is more of an added bonus. Something that sits in the background and is something that people can use if they like. It is something that can generate interest. It has been used and suggested in the past and it is likely to be recommended in the future. This will just set us ahead of the curve and may generate some interest in Talossa. =) Having the times in each province on each provincial page is a good idea and having what the official time in Talossa is on the website is also a ver good idea as well. All countries use GMT time by virtue of being in a time zone, it is just and official point of reference. Txec Ereufighleu
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