The issue is that 13 is not divisible by anything, so we can’t split the year by halves or quarters like we do now.
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Matcraftou@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Is this true??? If so WHY THE F… ARE WR STILL USING THE CURRENT CALENDAR.
Honestly I would be all for a new calendar if this is true
vancent@lemmy.world 7 months ago
PersnickityPenguin@lemm.ee 7 months ago
Can’t be as bad as daylight savings though.
BigT54@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Sure you can, just not by months, you would need to use weeks instead to retain integer values. A half year would be 26 weeks and a quarter year would just be 13 weeks. Of course this fails if you wish to divide further, but at that point you could just say 2 months and people would know for certain you are saying 8 weeks.
Robust_Mirror@aussie.zone 7 months ago
The main hickup is the system is off by a day. Some people “fix” this by saying the extra day should be “new years day” or something similar that exists outside the main calendar and doesn’t have an actual date or day assigned to it. Personally I think that’s kind of silly but it does work.
The second problem which to me is a much bigger problem, is he argues every month starting on Monday is a feature, I think it’s a bug. The result of this is every date is the same day, every year. If you are born on a Wednesday, your birthday will always be on a Wednesday. I like it mixing up and getting to have your birthday on different days.
Also almost everyone will have a new birthday they have to learn and too many people would simply be unwilling to go along with that.
And all that is ignoring the monumental task of changing every computer system in the world.
victorz@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Excellent discussion actually.
zeekaran@sopuli.xyz 7 months ago
Same day every year is definitely a feature. Make holidays on Fridays or Mondays. Celebrate your birthday on Saturday if you want.
Robust_Mirror@aussie.zone 7 months ago
I will concede that it would make some things easier, like if someone says are you busy on the 5th, you can instantly know the 5th is a Friday or whatever. But I still don’t like it. And without researching in detail, I’m betting there are holidays, particularly religious ones, that wouldn’t be okay with moving the date to match the weekend closest to it for reasons.
zeekaran@sopuli.xyz 7 months ago
Most religious holidays have already been moved people in three generations won’t care. Most will appreciate the weekend adjacent scheduling. Things like the Fourth of July can just be Independence Day like it already is.
Sea_pop@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Yes, I am that guy but the word is ‘hiccup’, not hickup. Although, coming from a family of rednecks, this fits as we do tend to mess stuff up quite often.
Robust_Mirror@aussie.zone 7 months ago
You know, I knew that, and I really don’t know how that happened. In any case thanks.