{"id":18347,"date":"2016-02-27T10:47:36","date_gmt":"2016-02-27T15:47:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=18347"},"modified":"2016-02-27T10:47:36","modified_gmt":"2016-02-27T15:47:36","slug":"day-of-reckoning-imminent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=18347","title":{"rendered":"Day of Reckoning Imminent"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"art-postmetadataheader\">\n<h3 class=\"art-postheader\"><a title=\"Permanent Link to Day of Reckoning Imminent\" href=\"http:\/\/www.acting-man.com\/?p=43518\" rel=\"bookmark\">Day of Reckoning Imminent\u00a0<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"art-postheadericons art-metadata-icons\"><strong>Fudging Numbers<\/strong><\/div>\n<div class=\"art-postcontent\">\n<p>It all seems so systematic, arranged, and orderly.\u00a0 Sixty seconds make a minute, 60 minutes make an hour, 24 hours make a day, and one day equals one complete rotation of the planet earth. Roughly every 30 days the moon orbits the earth \u2013 which is one month.\u00a0 Then every 12 months the earth orbits the sun \u2013 which is one year. So far so good\u2026right?<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-43524\" src=\"http:\/\/www.acting-man.com\/blog\/media\/2016\/02\/SciSource_BS5853.jpg\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.acting-man.com\/blog\/media\/2016\/02\/SciSource_BS5853-285x300.jpg 285x, http:\/\/www.acting-man.com\/blog\/media\/2016\/02\/SciSource_BS5853-768x807.jpg 768x, http:\/\/www.acting-man.com\/blog\/media\/2016\/02\/SciSource_BS5853.jpg 875x\" alt=\"The Gregorian calendar\" width=\"600\" height=\"631\" \/>Oldish German calendar. \u00a0\u00a0Image via sciencesource.com<\/p>\n<p>But here\u2019s where the nice and neat order of it all breaks down.\u00a0 For if you try to measure one of earth\u2019s orbits of the sun in days it\u2019s not so divinely tidy.\u00a0 For it takes 365 days plus an inconvenient 6 hours to fully complete the cycle. Nonetheless, we don\u2019t let these inconvenient 6 hours hamper our perfection.<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019re humans, after all.\u00a0 We innovate, invent, and make the world in our image.\u00a0 So when the numbers don\u2019t jive, we do what must be done.\u00a0 We fudge them. We create an off balance account, we concoct a new theory, we contrive negative interest rate policy\u2026and we invent a leap year.<\/p>\n<p>This\u00a0coming Monday is\u00a0the day the books must be reckoned.\u00a0 Peering into our off balance account we find 24 accrued hours that must be tallied up and rectified. Consequently, we must have a day of correction for the disorder of the last four years.\u00a0 We must resynchronize the calendar year with the astronomical year.\u00a0 Moreover, we must reground our measuring system with its baseline \u2013 its reference point.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-43522\" src=\"http:\/\/www.acting-man.com\/blog\/media\/2016\/02\/BrandoJuliusCaesar.jpg\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.acting-man.com\/blog\/media\/2016\/02\/BrandoJuliusCaesar-300x260.jpg 300x, http:\/\/www.acting-man.com\/blog\/media\/2016\/02\/BrandoJuliusCaesar.jpg 696x\" alt=\"BrandoJuliusCaesar\" width=\"600\" height=\"521\" \/>Did you really think we\u2019d let you get away with that calendar-fudging, oh Julius? February 29? Seriously? \u00a0\u00a0Photo credit: MGM\/Turner Ent.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Day of Reckoning Imminent\u00a0 Fudging Numbers It all seems so systematic, arranged, and orderly.\u00a0 Sixty seconds make a minute, 60 minutes make an hour, 24 hours make a day, and one day equals one complete rotation of the planet earth. Roughly every 30 days the moon orbits the earth \u2013 which is one month.\u00a0 Then [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[5728,5981,11763,534,558,1389],"class_list":["post-18347","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","tag-acting-man","tag-helicopter-money","tag-mn-gordon","tag-monetary-policy","tag-negative-interest-rates","tag-nirp"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18347","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18347"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18347\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18348,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18347\/revisions\/18348"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}