• RegalPotoo@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    As a software dev who has lost weeks of his life dealing with timezones, leap days, daylight savings time, date math and other associated nonsense I fully support this being the way the world is. I don’t want to go through the transition to get there though

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      7 months ago

      Bad news: this has nothing to do with timezones, leap days nor daylight saving time. Honestly, leap days would be worse because they wouldn’t be part of the 7 day week

      • rockSlayer@lemmy.world
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        It’s accounted for just like any other leap year, add it to the end of a month as a universal holiday. Most calendar models make it July 29. It’s also worth noting that this is actually 364 days, and a single day at the end of the year is a universal holiday.

        Edit: I think leap years should be at the end of the year too for simplicity.

        • Flipper@feddit.de
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          7 months ago

          That would just be new year. I’ve already have a list ready for how to name all the months, so we don’t fuck it up like September being the 9. Month again.

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          7 months ago

          Which breaks “day of week = day modulo 7” if every month starts on Monday and not every month has the same number of days

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            7 months ago

            Look, short of changing Earth’s orbit, something’s not gonna line up no matter what you do. Extra-weekly days are as good a compromise as any in my book.

      • MalReynolds@slrpnk.net
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        7 months ago

        Just make them holidays, everyone works too much anyway, and it’s just getting worse for no reason.

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      7 months ago

      thank you for your service, i usually resort to libraries doing the heavy lifting but even then it’s tough and prone to error