RTS
Rational Time System.
13 months. 28 days.
Universal decimal time.
The standard day is divided into 10 hours, each containing 100 minutes, and 100 seconds.
Time zones are eliminated. The entire globe shares a single, synchronized timeline.
13 Equal Months
Every month has exactly 28 days — 4 perfect weeks. Every month starts on Monday. Your birthday falls on the same weekday, every year, forever.
Global Holiday
13 × 28 = 364. The 365th day sits outside the calendar — no month, no weekday. A universal day of rest. Leap years add a second holiday.
Month Names
Latin ordinals: Primus, Secundus, Tertius… through Duodecimus. The 13th month is Terminus — "the boundary."
Decimal Conversion
1 decimal second ≈ 0.864 standard seconds.
1 decimal hour = 2 hrs 24 min standard.
"Your Time or Mine?"
Stop doing mental timezone math for global meetings. 04:00 is 04:00 everywhere. Say goodbye to Daylight Saving desyncs.
Time Travel Flights
No more departing at 10:00, flying for 14 hours, and arriving at 12:00 local time. Durations actually match the clock.
The Developer Nightmare
Eradicate complex tzdata libraries, offset bugs, and leap second edge-cases from codebases entirely.
30 Days Hath September...
Stop memorizing which months have 28, 30, or 31 days. Stop worrying about unequal quarters or February payroll imbalances.
RTS isn't a revolution — it's a parallel system. No one wakes up to a new clock. You adopt it when it makes your life easier.
01 Dual Display
Clocks, apps, and dashboards show both systems side by side — like road signs in countries transitioning to metric. Familiarity builds naturally.
02 Industry First
Global tech, finance, and aviation already use UTC internally. RTS replaces UTC as the coordination layer — no public-facing change required.
03 Opt-In Culture
Operating systems and phones offer RTS as a display option. Early adopters switch their personal devices. Social proof does the rest.
04 Sunset Legacy
Once a critical mass is reached, the Gregorian calendar becomes the "imperial" system — still understood, rarely used. The transition completes itself.