perennial 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
Walter is not as smart as jesse sadly never was
It sounds like you need a rewatch. Jesse has about a quarter of Walt’s intelligence and knowledge, if that.
Bruh i was talking about all these memes in which jesse is right and walter doesn’t understand .
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.
Can we do something about October being the 10th month of the year. It’s stupid and annoying.
You can thank Julius Augustus for that. He wanted the best months named after himself. Egomaniac.
Start the year on March 1st like it used to be?
And September (sept=seven), November (nov=nine) and December (dec=ten)…
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.
That’s a common misconception. For the Romans, the year used to start with March and only have ten months. January and February weren’t even named, it was just the time between harvest and the new year. Several calendar changes followed over the centuries. Adding two months. Moving the new year to January, which made September-December no longer 7-10. Adding random one-off months to realign with the seasons. And a couple different tries at leap days, among other things.
Edit: The fifth and sixth months were originally named Quintilis and Sextilis before they were changed to July and August.
The Romans had twelve months and they even named January and February, it’s usually attributed to Numa Pompilius, second king of Rome sometime during his reign (715–672 BC) of the Roman Kingdom.
All covered in the link. The addition of January and February and later moving the new year from March to January is the reason Sept-Dec are no longer the seventh-tenth months. Not July and August, which were renamings, not additions.
Edit: I suppose my first comment should have specified early Romans. The way I wrote it could be read as all those changes happening after the Romans.
Tbf, the calendar before them was even worse
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.
Metric time is TAI
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!
Software developers hearing we’re changing the calendar 💀
We should all just switch to Unix time.
We could inadvertently make 12/31/1969 and 1/1/1970 the most dangerous destination for time travelers, sounds fun to me.
That’ll be great for 14 years
Linux has been switching that to 64 bit, applications just need to catch up and use the new call. They’ve got almost a decade and a half, so I’d hope they’ll all be updated, but you know there’ll be something subtle and critical that only gets done at the last second.
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
We just shut down the servers for one day a year and reboot all of them. How hard can it be?
Network switches with over 10 years of uptime chuckle nervously
Ok, and we just don’t process any of the data from that day, ever?
Let’s be honest, we all could do with a bit less data processing.
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.
EVER
Just invent 0. Array starts from 0 so can new year
Zero Nonuary.
You’ll also need plan for timezones as well.
You’ve been given the zeroth place
And leap year?
New year’s 2: Electric Boogaloo
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.
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.
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.
International Fixed Calendar? I seem to remember hearing a proposal for the 13th month being called Sol which is kinda cool.
The 13th month should be called eleven, because it’d come after December (10), our 12th month.
The 13th month should be called Smarch!
I like the cut of your jib
i like the cut of his hair.
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.
We cant ever change it now because people would complain about the cost of doing so. Like freedom units.
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Why would they are? The amount they get a year is still the same amount, just broken up more evenly.
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?
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