Yes to the days of the year - only sensible way to do it. Added bonus that the first day of each month is always a Monday, which makes it easy to calculate days-of-week in your head. Also, two days holiday at new year every leap year, yeah.
Metric seconds is a bit trickier. Most units of measurement have ‘time’ in them in some way.
The SI is obviously that way - length is defined as metres per second of light in vacuum, mass by fixing the Planck constant in kilogram metres squared per second. But Imperial units, besides the fact that they’re usually defined in law in terms of the SI, also have a lot of their derived units include time - mph and psi for instance.
Unless you’re wanting to redefine basically every unit of measurement in your new system, then you need to stick with the second, which means you’re stuck with ~86400 seconds per day, because that’s how fast the world turns, and there’s no particularly better way to subdivide it.
Although if your new calendar could also fix the damned mess that is time zones at the same time, I’d be willing to give it a shot.
Time zones are tricky, because it’d establish that the New Year would begin equally everywhere - which simply is not the case. I’d prefer to keep them. Just as Discord has a hammertime function that uses the Unix time format to display dates flexibly, that could be an idea. You could implement that time formats automatically are given in such a format, so that everyone sees at what time it is. Problem solved!
But if you had to, I would suggest to pick the line between Russia and the US, since almost nobody lives there (or even around there, save for New Zealand and Hawaii), and there are almost no islands there. This whereas on both sides of the line between Greenland and Iceland, there is a wide expanse with many people.
Yes to the days of the year - only sensible way to do it. Added bonus that the first day of each month is always a Monday, which makes it easy to calculate days-of-week in your head. Also, two days holiday at new year every leap year, yeah.
Metric seconds is a bit trickier. Most units of measurement have ‘time’ in them in some way.
The SI is obviously that way - length is defined as metres per second of light in vacuum, mass by fixing the Planck constant in kilogram metres squared per second. But Imperial units, besides the fact that they’re usually defined in law in terms of the SI, also have a lot of their derived units include time - mph and psi for instance.
Unless you’re wanting to redefine basically every unit of measurement in your new system, then you need to stick with the second, which means you’re stuck with ~86400 seconds per day, because that’s how fast the world turns, and there’s no particularly better way to subdivide it.
Although if your new calendar could also fix the damned mess that is time zones at the same time, I’d be willing to give it a shot.
Time zones are tricky, because it’d establish that the New Year would begin equally everywhere - which simply is not the case. I’d prefer to keep them. Just as Discord has a hammertime function that uses the Unix time format to display dates flexibly, that could be an idea. You could implement that time formats automatically are given in such a format, so that everyone sees at what time it is. Problem solved!
But if you had to, I would suggest to pick the line between Russia and the US, since almost nobody lives there (or even around there, save for New Zealand and Hawaii), and there are almost no islands there. This whereas on both sides of the line between Greenland and Iceland, there is a wide expanse with many people.