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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
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
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.
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.
Ooh, tell me what the names would be! Don’t leave me hanging. I HATE that September - December are all off.
- Firstber
- Secondary
- Thurd
- Quadtober
- Cincondary
- Sextember
- Septober
- Octuary
- Nonuary
- Tenber
- Postenber
- Expostenber
- June
Sextember
Nice.
Wheezed at this, thanks
Which breaks “day of week = day modulo 7” if every month starts on Monday and not every month has the same number of days
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.
There is also a technological solution, I knew it
Just make them holidays, everyone works too much anyway, and it’s just getting worse for no reason.
Leap day gets it’s own name outside of saturday through sunday. It’s an all awesome holiday.
… which fucks with the way the day of the week is calculated by computers as I already explained others
Y2k was handled. This can be too.
Didn’t say it’s not manageable, just said it’s not easier
thank you for your service, i usually resort to libraries doing the heavy lifting but even then it’s tough and prone to error
A lunar day is 27.3 days and a solar cycle is 29 and change. So we’d be just off the lunar cycles. Like when you’re sitting waiting for a turn lane signal to change and the person in front of you has a blinker that’s just a tiny bit slower than yours.
But how would the corporate world divide the 13 month year into quarters? Don’t you know what that’ll do to the bottom line?! Think of the poor shareholders! /s
We dine on the rich during month 13.
The solution to that is having 12 months of 4 weeks each, and one week of solstice every 3 months. One quarter then is 13 weeks in total. That makes it so each quarter perfectly matches a season and keeps it all in sync with solar time. In the ideal case you also match the school holidays to the solstice, and the winter solstice includes new year’s day and leap day, making it just a bit longer for Christmas holidays.
Yes, I’ve given this a bit too much thought.
3 months and one week. Simples!
3 months 1 week?
Split it to 3 months as is now, then the remainder is 28 days. 28 is divisible by 4 to leave 7.
Q1 ends 1 week into April, Q2 ends 2 weeks into June, etc.
28*13=364
We should make the days 28 hours long as well while we’re at it.
I actually had this happen once. My mental health actually improved, but it was untenable for my job and social life unfortunately. It was kinda nice for a couple months though.
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.
Can we do something about October being the 10th month of the year. It’s stupid and annoying.
Blame the Caesars, Julius for July and Augustus for August.
I suppose we could fix it by moving the start of the year to March 1st. Start of spring makes more sense for the new year anyway.
Start the year on March 1st like it used to be?
And September (sept=seven), November (nov=nine) and December (dec=ten)…
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.
I hate the idea of metric time (for a lot of use cases metric is still awesome).
12 and 60 can be easily divided by 2, 3, 4, 6. 60 also by 5 and 10. Even for 8 it’s still kind of easy.
For 10 or 100 division is easy for 2, 5 and 10 and okay-ish for 4.
The 12/60 (and 360 degrees of a circle) are such an elegant system!
Get better at math and theres no problem.
makes sense in a world without much fractions or the decimal system. You want to get the most divisors for your buck.
IMHO especially in a setting like time where fractions are very common (like “half an hour”), being able to represent fractions with whole numbers is very convenient.
Can we start the 1st on Sunday though so every month has a Friday the 13th?
This is the real discussion piece. We either always have Friday the 13th or we never do again.
I’m with you for always Friday the 13th.
Plus, never having one again just feels wrong.
I’ve actual been saying this for years for this exact reason. God forbid we not be able to divide a year into clean quarters.
Three months and one week still seems like a clean quarter to me.
Alternatively, if we really want to stick to the three-month quarter then we could call the extra week of each quarter an off-week or save it all for the 13th month of the year since nothing really gets done during that time anyway.
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Surprisingly, one of the only groups to use this calendar IRL was a giant international corporation: Kodak
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
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.
I like it.
But mostly because of all the furor it’ll cause.
i’m intrigued, but leap days would fuck it up though
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).
Right, I forgot about that edge case… But at least they agree about a particular date’s day of the week, don’t they? And they’re consistently one day off. This proposed system would be inconsistently off, sometimes in sync and sometimes 3 days off.
true I’ve heard about that, sure why not
Leap years aren’t every four years though, just FYI.
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Also imagine your birthday always being on a Monday…
