FaeriesWearBoots@sopuli.xyz 1 month ago
This could be every month if we adopted a 13 month calendar of 4, 7 day weeks. Works out very cleanly with only 1 extra day per year.
While we’re changing the calendar, can we rename September through December so they’re not off by two?
Septem, Octo, Novem and Decem are the Latin words for 7, 8, 9 and 10 respectively, but they’re actually the 9th, 10th, 11th and 12th months of the year. This is because the calendar was originally only 10 months, but Julius Caesar added two new months without renaming the last four.
Maybe the oldest tech debt in existence - the calendar was changed in 45 BC.
In Japanese months are named based on the number of the month, literally “first month” to “12th month”, which is the most sensible way to do it
Why not just call February 2026 “month 2 of 2026” and call the 9th of February 2026 “the 9th of month 2 of 2026”
That’s essentially how the Roman calendar was named for six out of the 10 months:
But then we’d have to deal with that lousy Smarch weather
People are superstitious and would never allow a 13th month
Worse than that, in order to preserve the date/day-of-week correlation, the extra 1-2 days (you still need leap years) would not have to be part of any week.
So that’s instant opposition from all the Abrahamic religions.
Agreed. It’s so simple and beautiful. - The once a year extra-day is an international Eat The Rich holiday. Probably tied to the winter solstice. - And every fourth year we all get a bonus-extra Leap Purge holiday.
The Gregorian calendar has nothing on this!
I like this better than the French revolutionary calendar’s ten-day weeks. Maybe if they had included more than two weekend days people wouldn’t have hated it so much
The best part is that every date (i.e. the 1st, the 22nd, etc) would always fall on the same day of the week, every month.
qistoph@feddit.nl 1 month ago
en.wikipedia.org/…/International_Fixed_Calendar
birdwing@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 month ago
Combined with Holocene calendar and decimal time… hnrggh…
thedarkfly@feddit.org 1 month ago
I actually like the 12 or 60 based time! Couldn’t we change to base 12 for everything instead? 🥺
birdwing@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 month ago
Time already is that.
hallettj@leminal.space 1 month ago
Yeah, I’m a fan of using minutes instead of percentages. For example instead of 33.3̅% you can write :20 or 20’ - like in the old fixed-point arithmetic days!
MyDarkestTimeline01@ani.social 1 month ago
The true ideal.
rustydrd@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
Behold Symmetry454, the TRUE true ideal.