Kodak used to operate on this 13 month calendar. When I asked someone who used to work there, she was shocked that I knew about it and said that it was the best thing about working there. The original plan that this calendar is based on called for a liminal day between years for New Year’s Day with 2 days for leap years
I work for a company which used to have 13 financial periods. It was great. Then they switched to 12 and we now have a couple of 5 week periods thrown in to balance the year out. I don’t know why they decided that but it’s not as good now.
There is a choice between having an extra day in the holiday season and counting up the extra days plus leap days, and inserting an extra week every several years
Adding the extra day annoys people who value weeks continuing as they have since ancient times
Using a leap week rule makes the calendar track the seasons a little worse. Solstices and equinoxes will move by about a week over several years
How is no one in here talking about the International Fixed Calendar? It was exactly this, and Kodak used it for 60 years. It does work. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Fixed_Calendar
Huh, so this + Human Era dating is now my new favorite calender (there’s a sentence lol)
Every birthday you have, for your entire life, being on a Wednesday.
Sounds great.
Let’s make each month 73 days.
5 months. We can figure out a season for each one!
And pay less than half as much rent!
See also: Metric time.
10hrs in a day. 100min in a hour. 100 sec in a min.
Though I like the idea a lot, 60 has the great advantage that you can devide it by 2,3,4,5 and 6 which is a very useful property… The real power move would be to use the 60-system for everything… Like the Babylonians did, or so I heared
Nah, base 12 number system with the same logic as metric. But it’s probably too late to switch to a different number system.
Nah. Can’t devide by ape fingers
Except that a lunar cycle is 29.5 days long.
The Jews recognized this and their calendar runs akin to it (https://www.timeanddate.com/date/jewish-leap-year.html), but with 7 “leap months” occurring over the course of 19 years. Of course, then they fuck it up with extra or fewer days to keep certain holidays from falling on certain days of the week. You win some, you lose some.
Fuck it. No-one is this thread can seem to agree, so I’m making a unilateral declaration that from here on out, all units of time except for the second are abolished, and we just use unix time for everything. You have until 1699217619s to make the switch.
We’ll call it “Longpork’s Law”
I’ve never been a fan of this idea, it doesn’t go far enough and further makes things less symmetric/divisible. I say we use 6-day weeks, 5 weeks per month, 12 months per year, and an inter-calary holiday week of 5-6 days. A six day week means 4 days working, 2 days rest, and that can be staggered more easily/equitably assuming work needs full coverage in a week. We start the new year on the Spring Equinox because it’s generally more pleasant.
For bonus points, we switch to base-12 (or dozenal) in our numbering system because after the transition it’s a much easier system to deal with as far as division and multiplication is concerned (e.g. 1/4 would be .3 instead of .25, 1/3 is .4 instead of .333…, 1/2 is .6, etc.).
Pretty sure this is what the Mayans used.
Really? I don’t see it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maya_calendar
What would we call the 13th month?
* sorry guys, this had apparently been decided already
Who cares? Right now the 10th month is named after the number 8.
And September isn’t even the 7th month anymore, time to modernize
Funuary.
Eleventer but in latin of course
What was the original idea of our calendar? And did every month have 8 weeks or so? Were weeks longer?
Huh am I missing something?
13 x 28 = 364 but a year has 365,2425 days
There would be a leap day every year, and two every four years.
Aka New Years Day!
Lousy Smarch weather.
Is it true though?
What would we call the 13th month?
Monthy McMonthface
Since the 12th month is December, a 13th month should obviously be called Undecember (the undec- prefix meaning 11 in Latin).
Better yet, just stick the new month in the middle of the calendar, but don’t rename the months that have numbers in their name. It already worked once (thanks, Romans).
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