Radical ideas

Radical ideas I support that should not be radical:
(Before everyone gets in a huff, these all have to do with measurement)

1) The Metric System
In a very, very, very brief nutshell, everything is base 10. Conversion is simple. The majority of the world and science already uses it.

2) Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) and a 24-hour clock
The logical, IT professional has dealt with UTC for years. It’s the rest of the world that INSISTS on this petty time zone thing. It’s archaic to still be basing how we live our lives by the patterns of celestial bodies in the sky. From an economic standpoint, business never stops; it continues to run 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. It takes no head to the amount of sunlight in the sky. If we all acknowledge that it is 1300, globally, it will solve a lot of issues. Does this mean that if you are used to going to bed when it’s dark (say 10PM EST), you should wait until it is 2200 UTC? No. that’s silly. You’re comfortable at going to bed at 0300 UTC. Continue to do so.

3) The Holocene Calendar
This is a dating system that is similar to our own, based on astronomical year numbering. Where it differs is that it assumes year 0 is the estimated beginning of human history, approximately 12,000 years ago. For simplicity, we add 10,000 years to our current year. Thus 2013 becomes 12013. It also removes religion from historical calculations (this doesn’t imply any truth or lack of truth behind any of them either). What it does do is remove much of the date calculation from historical events.
Way too many examples:
Oldest known agricultural settlement (Cyprus) 9100 BCE, 901 HE
Invention of the Wheel 3500 BCE, 6501 HE
The Great Pyramid of Giza 2560 BCE, 7441 HE
Hammurabi’s Code 1754 BCE, 8247 HE
First Olympic Games 776 BCE, 9225 HE
Roman Republic is Founded 509 BCE, 9492 HE
Death of Alexander the Great 323 BCE, 9678
Assassination of Julius Caeser 44 BCE, 9957 HE
Fall of the Roman Empire 476 CE, 10476 HE