The sense of time from the early yr. of my memory is limited and compact: 

My 5th. birthday, as one continuous event coupled to the memory of the 'kindergarten' (nursery school) where I proudly showed off my presents; coupled to some 'meetings' with a partner in distress, from whom I only remember his LEGO building stones (a novelty in those days); coupled immediately to my 6th. birthday - a yellow plastic trailer with 6 small red volkswagen bugs -; a fun-fair on the field just before our house (a former bomb crater from W.W. II); looking at a minuscule photo camera in a shop window near my home; the 1st. day at school and my 1st. removal to a suburb. 
 
After that time, remembering things got better and better, with increasing subtlety. 
From yr. ago I can remember postures; faces; words (sentences) and even facial expressions, from everyday events and conversations. Although I have collected a 'treasure of experiences' meanwhile, the mth. and yr. seems to pass faster than before. As the 'age-number' increases, it appears to shorten the relative time that I lived. When I was 10 yr. old I experienced my lived time as much longer: I felt older than 10; when I was 14, I surely would have claimed some adult rights, if possible. Around my 18th. birthday I felt more or less 'even', but after that I started to feel younger than my 'calendar live'. Maybe I'm not completely set up for maturity, but even at this age (25 yr.) I start to complain about the rush as which time flows. 

In the present development and discrepancy between 'lived time' and 'calendar time', I probably can't conform to the process of decay accompanied with old age and I surely won't be ready for the - fast approaching - absolute erasure of existence. 

The cause of this discrepancy is - in my view - that we take time too literally. Because our experience of time is chained to repetitive periods in days, wk., mth.. and yr. and this dull routine of repetitiveness, a whole live long, numbs the brain. This is why it is easy to be tempted to underestimate the period of time passed since a particular event occurred: the fright if one discovers that what seemed to be just 1 yr. ago, in reality had taken place 2 or 3 yr. before! 

What our society needs on practical, economical and psychological grounds, is a new unity of time, a new calendar and even 'a new epoch'. One with an enhanced play area to engage creative thinking. A calendar so adaptive to human mentality, that it isn't necessary any longer to look back to the past, to verify if it was remunerative enough.

Ages will be ages, that's okay. An age = 100 yr. a nice round number, I can find no fault with it. 

The yr. however, has to be re-divided in 6 mth. of 60 days. The new yr. counts only 360 days. As a result of this the new yr. falls short of 5 days, and once per 4 yr. 6 days, against a conventional yr. This however, isn't a short coming of the new yr., but contrarily a great advance of the new time. Just think what would happen if you have been born in midwinter, each and every birthday would take place at the same seasonal circumstances in the conventional time: always celebrating your birthday in the same dark and cold season. In the new calendar every yr. the seasons shift slightly, so after a discrete period of time you could celebrate your birthday in spring or summer! 

Think of that poor soul Santa Claus, always working against the worst possible weather conditions, wouldn't it be nice to have him occasionally relieved in a warmer season? If Santa could come in summertime, this would also be a relieve to the homeless or the lonely wandering souls, who now furtively glimpse the cosiness of the lucky families through the windows. But in summer Santa could be a open air and out-of-doors event, enjoyed by each and every soul, with or without a family. Imagine Christmas blissful on the beach, sharing cold chicken, cool wine and all lonely people may join in, because outdoors there are no literal thresholds. 

Other benefits of the shifting seasons would be the obsoleteness of those boring seasonal sayings and expressions like 'March brings gales'; winter sports will be, in discrete periods of time, available to anyone; an extra summer holiday for some in dec. and lots of other unusual effects. There's no change these effects will be easy to get accustomed to: 1 lifetime is simply not enough for that.

The name of the mth. in the new yr. can be a compound of the existing names in the conventional yr.: 
 
 

 

The origin of the mth. in the conventional yr. is a case of 'a fat lot he cares!', what do we have to do with someone as Julius Caesar or other divine rulers who imposed that rigid calendar on us? And what about those names: in the  present era we would have the Kennedy mth. or maybe even Hitlember. By the way, the new mth. names are compiled from the old ones, so anyone who makes a fuss about these details is a grump.

When de mth. counts 60 days, there obviously will be 10 wk. in 1 mth.. Instead of 7 days in a conventional wk. in the new yr. a wk. has only 6 days. I will elaborate on that later, but 1st. concern with the names of the new days. 

Starting with the last day of the wk., I propose to keep the name: SUNday. It's not just to keep some traditions, but it is also a good idea not to throw away the baby with the bath water. The 'sun' goes very well with 'free' and that implies that this last day of the new wk. is a day of rest, just like it was in the conventional wk. From that has to follow that also the 1st. day, MONday - the working day - has to stay: it's just to nice a contrast, 'sun' - 'moon', 'day - night', 'freedom', 'work'. 

Tuesday the 2nd. working day? Nah, I always hated that day for it's half-hearted impression, it doesn't have the reluctance of the monday and also lacks the 'subsidence' of the Wednesday. Let's skip this day altogether. 

Wednesday has to go too, because in the new wk. there is no midwk. To call the 2nd. working day a Wednesday, it would give the impression there still is a midwk. (a traditional grown habit has to be considered ineradicable), a better guess would be to name the 2nd. working day to one of our new gods: 'automation' or just 'autoday' (abbreviation: au. pronunciation: 'ow!') The name also points out that this 2nd. working day will pass very quickly: it's over before you know it, automatically. 

Then we have THURSday, this day is so plain and 'daily' that I just can't think of something against it: thursday will be the 3th. working day. 

FRIday is a very good name for a day, it's a friendly, collaborative day. Maybe it's because Friday is the last working day in the conventional wk.: it tend to be a bit shorter and easier than the other days, partly because of the possibility to postpone things to the next Monday, to clear away things from the past working days and of course 'the wk. end is within sight'. Friday is still the best name for the 4th. and last working day of the new wk.

Then there is the SATURday. This is a rest day too, just like the Sunday. The name could be anything else, but Saturn fits well with Sun and Moon and it looks nice on a calendar to have these letters both together:
 
 

With a wk. of just 6 days and a wk. end, there are only 4 working days preceding 2 rest days. 

The economical consequences of a 4 days working wk. need not to be a drawback if, with some investment in a better future (education etc.), it results in a more evenly spread labour; better use of labour reserve and thus less unemployment and a vastly enhanced capacity for work due to a better tuned work/rest schedule. The 'monday-morning disease', 'midwk. subsidence', 'Friday afternoon postponing' and general lack of enthusiasm, will occur less frequently or not at all. (there will be no midwk in the new time). In the new time there is less need for economical growth and it tend to be a little slower, while 'demand' will be better spread, to people and to (leisure-) products and services.

In conventional time a schedule generally looks like this: 
 

If a working day could be split in two equal halves, then the work/rest period would be much better balanced. To this end I tried to adapt the h. system (60 conv. min.) to the round number of 100 new sec. per new min., and I found the 20 h. working day. Thus a new h. = 100  new min. while 1 new min. = 0,72 conventional min. and 100 new. sec. In the new time the days will be exactly as long as they were in the conventional time. The h. will be slightly longer in the new time. (20% - 1 new h. = 72 conv. min.) 

In the new time a schedule could look like this: 
 

Between 4 and 7 h. (new time) takes place the getting up, breakfast, preparing for work and travelling to the job location. In the conv. time an average amount of 2 conv. h. were allotted to this routine. In the new time this would take the same amount of 2 new h., but the new h. are slightly longer (12 conv. min.), resulting in an effective longer time to accomplish the same routine. 
This will be a benefit to the hasty and stressed people, there will be time to do the little things that makes life more peaceful and tranquil. Just a little more time for family members, for a life companion or to have a proper shave. 
Furthermore the amount of working h. will be 7 new h., which is apparently shorter than the 8 h. in the conv. time, but in fact will be 24 conv. min. longer! 

The psychological effect of an apparent shorter amount of working h., but slightly longer working day, will be of great benefit to the productivity. There will be a reduction in working h., but only in terms of the shorter 6 day wk. 

The travelling home after a day of work takes place between 13 and 16 h. (new time). Here also the 2 h. would be 24 conv. min. longer, the usual rush and resulting traffic-jam will be reduced by spreading the same amount of traffic over a longer period of time. Moreover though, there will be just the little bit more piece of mind to take things easier, take a bus, a train, to walk and even try a bike. There will be a change to burst out of the the daily grind, to do something else before rushing home. 

Between 15 and 20 h. (evening new time) is a period of relaxation and recreation. This period will also be slightly longer than in the conv. time, but the repose period will be much shorter: only 5 new h., which means 360 conv. min. or 6 conv. h. against 8 h. in the conv. time. This need not to be a drawback and actually this amount of time has been calculated in terms of 'stages' of rest rather than fixed 'on/off' sleeping behaviour. 
In the longer period before the repose period, there will be a possibility to acquire a state of mind and of physical condition, more restful and suitable for the night, while the 'easier' periods between 4 to 7 h. and 13 to 16 h. also contributes to the piece of mind required for a shorter sleeping period. In the end it will pay off : less time spend unconscious and a greater quality of life.

I propose the y. 2000 as a starting point for the new time to go into effect. Although any turn of the y. would be suitable, the y. 2000 is the best possible option. 2000 is a number which - as the new time in general - bears a "round" and "decimal" notion and it will be the start of a new millennium anyway, so why not starting something completely new? A new epoch... a better way of doing things? 

The only immediate conversion acquired will be the fact that the new y. ZERO has to begin with a monday (this is no problem, because generally the first day of the y. is a day off) and that there will be some short time needed to get accustom to the new (and better) way of life. 
The changes are minimal by means of effort to convert (similar to adjusting to daylight-saving time and vice versa or the leap y.) and only slowly emerging over a longer period of time. Of course new clocks has to be made as well. 

How much it touches me, the leap y. has to drop off the perch. It's just an imperfection of the conv. time and of no importance in the new time. Aside from that, all important data such as the Queens birthday, Christmas etc. can be translated to the new time with the 'converter calendar'. This is a simple overlay system of 2 calendars: 1 conv. and 1 new calendar, placed over each other. 

This universal conversion system could be spread all over the world to make individual and localized versions of important days from the conv. time into the new time.  As far as the important date 1 Apr. Fools' Day is concerned, this could also be Maril's Fools' Day. Similar conversions could be done throughout the new calendar. 

Apart from starting the y. ZERO with a monday, the calendar has to be expurgated from all 31th day nr.'s, except for 31 Jan. conv. time. When any important dates - such as a birthday - from the conv. time should coincide with a 31th day nr., this date just moves one step forward to the 31th day nr. of the new mth. or the 1st. day of the next new mth. This has the pleasant side-effect of 'getting 1 day younger in the new time', for people born at the 31th day of any given mth, which is yet another example of the new time's playful nature.

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