Mubelotix ( @Mubelotix@jlai.lu ) English33•3 months agoFrance 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
👍Maximum Derek👍 ( @Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de ) English25•3 months agoA 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.
MBM ( @MBM@lemmings.world ) English16•3 months agoYeah sadly the rotations of Earth around its axis, the moon around Earth, and Earth around the sun don’t divide each other nicely
blindsight ( @blindsight@beehaw.org ) English3•2 months agoSo what I’m getting from this is that we need to push the Moon a bit further from the Earth, and pull the Earth a bit closer to the Sun.
Hupf ( @Hupf@feddit.de ) English24•3 months agoWe should make the days 28 hours long as well while we’re at it.
blindsight ( @blindsight@beehaw.org ) English2•2 months agoWhat the flying fuck. I literally did that exact thing in university to manage my at-the-time undiagnosed sleep disorder.
I slept through like 30% of my classes, but it was the most rested I’d ever been in my life.
realitista ( @realitista@lemm.ee ) English23•3 months ago28*13=364
cori <3 (she/her) ( @cori@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) English36•3 months agoNew 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.
watersnipje ( @watersnipje@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) English24•3 months agoAs a software engineer, I beg of you
maynarkh ( @maynarkh@feddit.nl ) English10•3 months agoWe just shut down the servers for one day a year and reboot all of them. How hard can it be?
KamikazeRusher ( @KamikazeRusher@lemm.ee ) English2•2 months agoNetwork switches with over 10 years of uptime chuckle nervously
watersnipje ( @watersnipje@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) English2•3 months agoOk, and we just don’t process any of the data from that day, ever?
Swedneck ( @Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de ) English15•3 months agowhat happens on new years stays in new years
golli ( @golli@lemm.ee ) English2•3 months agoSo we basically make the Purge a reality?
maynarkh ( @maynarkh@feddit.nl ) English2•2 months agoLet’s be honest, we all could do with a bit less data processing.
GBU_28 ( @GBU_28@lemm.ee ) English1•3 months agoEVER
GBU_28 ( @GBU_28@lemm.ee ) English4•3 months agoYou’ve been given the zeroth place
BlackRoseAmongThorns ( @BlackRoseAmongThorns@slrpnk.net ) English4•3 months agoKinda 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?
watersnipje ( @watersnipje@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) English3•3 months agoOn 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.
BlackRoseAmongThorns ( @BlackRoseAmongThorns@slrpnk.net ) English1•2 months agoVery reasonable
mexicancartel ( @mexicancartel@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) English4•3 months agoJust invent 0. Array starts from 0 so can new year
watersnipje ( @watersnipje@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) English4•3 months agoZero Nonuary.
bobbytables ( @bobbytables@feddit.de ) English18•3 months agoI 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!
MBM ( @MBM@lemmings.world ) English5•3 months agoWe should “just” switch to base-6 (or maybe 12) first
bobbytables ( @bobbytables@feddit.de ) English10•3 months agoAFAIK the system goes back to the old Babylonians who had a base-60 system subdivided into 5 times 12. 5 times 12 could easily be counted using your thumb to count the 12 knuckles on the other fingers and the 5 fingers of the other hand.
I mean, how amazing is counting like that! I only learned to count to 10 with my fingers. I love the base-10 for its simplicity but base-60, subbase-12 is the shit :D
Emma_Gold_Man ( @Emma_Gold_Man@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) English2•3 months agoEven easier and more comfortable - count the pads instead of the knuckles. You can count to 12 with one hand, or 144 with two
bobbytables ( @bobbytables@feddit.de ) English2•3 months agoYou are right! English is not my first language and I thought I was talking about the pads. My bad! Yours is the best way!
pseudo ( @pseudo@jlai.lu ) English1•2 months agoThank you ! Last time I tried to explain this on Lemmy, I wrote my longest comment ever. I’m gonna use you much better explanation next time.
bluewing ( @bluewing@lemm.ee ) English15•3 months agoAh yes, decimalized time. An idea so bad even the French said no, just no after trying it.
01011 ( @01011@monero.town ) English13•3 months agoCan we do something about October being the 10th month of the year. It’s stupid and annoying.
s_s ( @s_s@lemm.ee ) English6•2 months agoStart the year on March 1st like it used to be?
blindsight ( @blindsight@beehaw.org ) English2•2 months agoYou can thank Julius Augustus for that. He wanted the best months named after himself. Egomaniac.
colourednumbers ( @colourednumbers@slrpnk.net ) English11•3 months agoYou 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.
404 ( @404@lemmy.zip ) English17•3 months agoThat 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
blindsight ( @blindsight@beehaw.org ) English1•2 months agoUniversal holidays between the years was good enough for the Mayans and it’s good enough for me!
belated_frog_pants ( @belated_frog_pants@beehaw.org ) English11•3 months agoWe cant ever change it now because people would complain about the cost of doing so. Like freedom units.
MalReynolds ( @MalReynolds@slrpnk.net ) English8•3 months agoJust make inconvenient days holidays, few will complain.
Flax ( @Flax_vert@feddit.uk ) English4•3 months agoWouldn’t it make sense to have the 1st be a Sunday and 28th be a Saturday?
heleos ( @heleos@lemm.ee ) English7•3 months agoI used to think the same, even made fun of friends and family for setting calendars to start on Monday, but then I tried it and found the light
Flax ( @Flax_vert@feddit.uk ) English2•3 months agoWhat’s so important about a visual change 🤣
heleos ( @heleos@lemm.ee ) English2•3 months agoI like having the weekend lumped together, it’s called a weekend for a reason!
cerement ( @cerement@slrpnk.net ) English4•3 months agoperennial calendars – specifically leap week calendars (already implemented in the ISO week date calendar) – keeps all the advantages of 28 day months, and the leap week (instead of a leap day) allows for everything to stay lined up and doesn’t interrupt the 7-day week cycle
otacon239 ( @otacon239@feddit.de ) English4•3 months agoDon’t forget about Gormanuary
uis ( @uis@lemm.ee ) English3•3 months agoMetric time is TAI
Mr_Vortex ( @Mr_Vortex@lemmy.sdf.org ) English3•3 months agoInternational Fixed Calendar? I seem to remember hearing a proposal for the 13th month being called Sol which is kinda cool.