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365.25 days x 24 hours/day = 8766 hours/year243.5 days x 36 hours/day = 8766 hours/year
The Clock:
Clocks identical to current analog clocks will be used but instead of 2 12-hours cycles each day, there will be three. In order to distinguish which cycle is "active," there will be three distinctions: A.M. (antemeridian), M.M. (midmeridian), and P.M. (postmeridian).
In order to offset the "loss of hours" and eventual gap in the time continuum when crossing the 24 time zones, there will be 36 time zones created, each 10 longitudinal degrees wide. In lieu of the Internation Date Line and the Prime Meridian (180 and 0 degrees, respectively) there will be three major meridians. The system will effectively divide the world into a system allowing for a time zone for each hour of the day and one group of 12 time zones for each cycle of the clock, A.M., M.M., and P.M. Proposed names for the three major meridians are: the International Date Line (120° W, 12:00 A.M.), the New Meridian (120° E, 12:00 M.M.), and the Prime Meridian (0°, 12:00 P.M.).
The Calendar:
January 20 Days July 20 Days February 20 Days August 21 Days March 20 Days September 20 Days April 21 Days October 20 Days May 20 Days November 20 Days June 20 Days December 21 Days
*The week will have 7 days, split up as 5 weekdays and 2 weekends.
*There will be approximately 35 weeks in a year.
*In order to keep synch with our revolution around the sun, we will need to have leap year every two years. Every other year, January will consist of 21 days.
Holidays and Birthdays:
It will be up to individuals to calculate birthdays. National holidays and religious holidays will be determined via the formula below. Should a religion have a qualm with the "new" dates of their holidays they will be allowed to determine for themselves, using their own methods, appropriate dates for the holidays which will then be adopted by all those practicing said religion. Those observing national holidays and those observing personal holidays such as birthdays do how have this option.
The following method is proposed for date conversion:
Determine what hour of the year the original day began or in the case of birthdays, the hour during which one was born. Then determine which day that hour falls in during the new year.
Example:
A person is born at 1 P.M., January 21. This is the 493rd hour of the year. (20x24+13=493). The 493rd hour of the new year falls on January 13 at 1 P.M. (13x36+25=493). The persons new birthday is January 13. The same procedure would be followed for holidays, using 12:00 A.M. of the date upon which the holiday currently falls. (12:00 A.M., February 14, in the case of Valentine’s Day, for example.)
New Year’s Eve and New Year’s Day would fall on December 21 and January 1, respectively.
Possible Human Effects:
As a rule, most humans are inclined to sleep during the dark period of a day. This will generate a problem as with 36 hour days, each alternate day will have more "night" than the days preceding and following. The solution proposed involves sleeping during a designated period during each day. It should be mentioned that due to the extra 12 hours per day, people will, for at least as long as it takes to adapt to the change, need more sleep at "night."
Scheduled events, such as school and work days will be rescheduled to conform to the 36-hour format. The change will (as all major changes do) require a period of trial during which people will have to adapt to their new schedules, be it biologically, mentally, or "artificially." After a period of time, one might predict, people will begin to become more comfortable with their new schedules as they reset their biological clocks.