[leetcrew]

there are a lot of reasons why you probably couldn't come up with a better time standard, but the most compelling to me is this: no matter how elegant the new system is, everything would still need to be backwards compatible with "legacy" time. unless your calendar only needs to handle dates after the new standard was introduced, the implementation will be more complicated than just sticking with the shitty system we already have.

[beatgammit]

I think the only realistic strict improvement is abolishing Daylight Savings Time everywhere. In a calendar, you don't really care about past events, though a good calendar will probably need to handle it, but most people would benefit from eliminating that occasional complexity.