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Just make inconvenient days holidays, few will complain.
We cant ever change it now because people would complain about the cost of doing so. Like freedom units.
In preparation for the upcoming Bell Riots, WWIII, Eugenics Wars, First Contact, Battle of Wolf 359, and Dominion Wars, I say we stop beating around the bush and adopt the Bajoran 26 hour day.
You left out one day 28x13 is 364 The alignment to the weekdays is only right every seventh year. Every sixth of you account for leap years.
That day would be new year’s day, not an ordinary day. So those weeks would be
- Mon-Sun
- Leap day/international holiday, undated
- Mon-Sun
Leap day/international holiday, undated
I felt a great disturbance in the Force, as if millions of developers suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced. I fear something terrible has happened.
The international fixed calendar is basically what’s described here. But it adds one day to bring it to 365, that day is called year day, and its an extra day, not a day of the week just a bonus day. Leap years get a second extra day 6 months later.
You know what… The more I hear about this calendar the more I like it.
A celebration day that doesn’t count… That’s neat.
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Why would they are? The amount they get a year is still the same amount, just broken up more evenly.
Oh honey
Most leases state rent is X per month, not a total per year.
Yeah but every month would get the February discount. There is a February discount, right?
- Anakin looking sternly
You really think the world could come to an agreement on which day the week should start? Would be really awkward if a month starts with the second or third day of the week.
Imagine if your birthday was always on Monday
Strong counterargument there!
Quarters would be weird for businesses so it would never catch on.
It’s not really that hard to have a quarter be 3 months + 1 week tbh.
I bow to your lobes in all business matters.
We could all unionize and just take the first month off, set it in the deepest part of winter, January or so, and just set Christmas to be during that month. Although people might not be thrilled to move Christmas to after New Year’s.
Christmas is already after New Year’s in the current calendar year ;)
i’m intrigued, but leap days would fuck it up though
Also imagine your birthday always being on a Monday…
This meme already ignores the fact that it’s only produced a calendar of 364 days.
Most proposed versions I’ve seen of this calendar have New Year’s Day as a standalone holiday, so the leap day presumably tacks on to that every 4 years?
Currently, everyone in the world agrees about the days of the week (correct me if I’m wrong). If it’s Monday in France it’s Monday in Finland, besides a few hours due to timezones. But if a particular society adopts this system you describe, or any system under which every year starts on a particular day of the week and is solar aligned, that necessitates having an incomplete week and losing that sync with the entire rest of the world.
A possible solution is to only use leap weeks. So every year has 364 days, but every 6 years or so (spare me the exact calculation) you track on a leap week to realign with the solar cycle. This is similar to the leap month in the Hebrew calendar - months follow the moon so a leap month is the smallest unit possible to tweak the length of a year.
You’re wrong. For example: some of the country of Kiribati (UTC +14) will never be in the same day of the week as Hawaii (UTC -10).
Leap years aren’t every four years though, just FYI.
true I’ve heard about that, sure why not
France tried such calendar in 1789 and 1871. We lost it when Jules Ferry executed all the communalists in Paris. Some people in France still use those calendars to show their support to revolutionary ideas
There are a few websites and twitter accounts that remind you that today is Nonidi, 29 Germinal of the year CCXXXII.
Picking up a newspaper in Thailand reminds you it’s year 2567
The reckoning of the Buddhist Era in Thailand is 543 years ahead of Anno Domini, so the year 2024 AD corresponds to B.E. 2567.
This reminds me of a fantasy series I like, where the world still has 365 day, but every month is 30 days long, and the remaining 5 days are separate holidays for the solstices, equinoxes, and new years.
Also, when are we going to do 10hrs/day, 100 min/hr and 100s/min?
I like this better because if you have to do one holiday outside of the calendar then why not 5 and the equinoxes and solsctices divide it up perfectly. Then everything else is nice and even. I assume weeks were six days long as that is how I always thought of it. 5 six day weeks.
Oh god, converting imperial kHz to metric kHz sounds awful
Don’t decimalize time, instead dozenalize our numbers! Twelve is such a better building block than ten. Pretty much all math becomes way easier using dozenal numbers instead of decimal ones.
With base 12 you can actually get a result for 1/3
But not for 1/5
Yes, but having 2, 3, 4, 6 as factors is way better than having only 2 and 5. We’d be giving up one factor to add three.
Big Decimal has brainwashed the population into thinking that 5 is a good number instead of the terrible prime number that it is. It should be clumped in with 7 and 11 as Bad Numbers when you’re dealing with anything except for 10s.
The 24h cycle with subdivisions in 60 is easy for dividing them up though. 60 divides by 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 10, 12, 15, 20 and 30.
Also, when are we going to do 10hrs/day, 100 min/hr and 100s/min?
This is how you collectively give the entire scientific community a simultaneous aneurysm. The amount of work needed to convert measurements based on our current seconds/minutes/hours to your “metric” seconds/minutes/hours would be astronomical.
Also, pretty much everyone already agrees on the current system of time, so why change it? It would just create another metric/imperial or F/C divide and cause conversion mistakes.
I think we are due another Y2K legacy system replacement global project.
Will this satisfy your request? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Year_2038_problem?wprov=sfla1
It would add another level to time conversion between timezones
28*13=364
New years day is always a holiday that doesn’t fall on any other day of the calendar. It’s just kind of its own thing. No idea how that would actually work irl but that is usually how this proposal is explained.
As a software engineer, I beg of you
You’ll also need plan for timezones as well.
Just invent 0. Array starts from 0 so can new year
Zero Nonuary.
We just shut down the servers for one day a year and reboot all of them. How hard can it be?
Ok, and we just don’t process any of the data from that day, ever?
what happens on new years stays in new years
So we basically make the Purge a reality?
I like this idea more and more. All computers off, noone is allowed to work, just a big new years party for everyone.
Let’s be honest, we all could do with a bit less data processing.
EVER
Network switches with over 10 years of uptime chuckle nervously
Kinda sounds easier to implement tbh, like, right now leap days are in a specific month, but wouldn’t it (in addition to a hypothetical new years day) be easier to handle and remember if they are a very explicit part of the calendar system?
On the one hand, yes. On the other hand, now there is a day that is not part of a week, or a month. And we have a month and a week that don’t immediately follow after the previous one.
You’ve been given the zeroth place
And leap year?
New year’s 2: Electric Boogaloo
Don’t forget about Gormanuary
I do not want my birthday to fall on the same day of the week each year!
Seems like a high price to pay just to test who cares enough.
Ah yes, decimalized time. An idea so bad even the French said no, just no after trying it.
People being afraid of the number 13 doesnt make it a bad idea.
I believe they’re referring to the metric time comment, not the calendar change idea.
