Does Technocracy plan to change the calendar?
Technocracy plans no changes to the calendar currently in use. It will, however, propose a new calendar for the purposes of organizing work done. Whether the population will choose to abandon the current calendar or not for every day use is entirely up to them. The purpose of the new calendar is to illustrate how a Technate might organize its work force to provide a minimum of work for its people, along with a maximum of convenience. The current calendar is another prevailing cause of poor load factors. With it, practically everybody works on the same days and is off on the same days. This introduces traffic jams and small periods of peak load on our places of recreation, distribution, as well as on industrial equipment. In order to improve the load factor on these things it is necessary for these peaks to be eliminated so that the traffic on any one day is similar to the traffic on any other day. The same goes as well for time periods during the day. The revision of the calendar smoot