Just make them holidays, everyone works too much anyway, and it’s just getting worse for no reason.
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lugal@sopuli.xyz 6 months agoBad news: this has nothing to do with timezones, leap days nor daylight saving time. Honestly, leap days would be worse because they wouldn’t be part of the 7 day week
MalReynolds@slrpnk.net 6 months ago
ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de 6 months ago
Leap day gets it’s own name outside of saturday through sunday. It’s an all awesome holiday.
lugal@sopuli.xyz 6 months ago
… which fucks with the way the day of the week is calculated by computers as I already explained others
ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de 6 months ago
Y2k was handled. This can be too.
lugal@sopuli.xyz 6 months ago
Didn’t say it’s not manageable, just said it’s not easier
rockSlayer@lemmy.world 6 months ago
It’s accounted for just like any other leap year, add it to the end of a month. Most calendar models make it July 29. It’s also worth noting that this is actually 360 days, and there are 5 days at the end of each year that’s basically a universal holiday
Flipper@feddit.de 6 months ago
That would just be new year. I’ve already have a list ready for how to name all the months, so we don’t fuck it up like September being the 9. Month again.
LeftHandedWave@lemm.ee 6 months ago
Ooh, tell me what the names would be! Don’t leave me hanging. I HATE that September - December are all off.
felbane@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Firstber Secondary Thurd Quadtober Cincondary Sextember Septober Octuary Nonuary Tenber Postenber Expostenber June
lugal@sopuli.xyz 6 months ago
Which breaks “day of week = day modulo 7” if every month starts on Monday and not every month has the same number of days
ElderWendigo@sh.itjust.works 6 months ago
In this scheme, new years day and leap days are not any day of the week or part of any month. They exist outside of the regular calendar as obvious and explicit resets to the remainder problem.
lugal@sopuli.xyz 6 months ago
My point exactly. So the programmer who commented above me is wrong in saying it makes it easier for them
grue@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Look, short of changing Earth’s orbit, something’s not gonna line up no matter what you do. Extra-weekly days are as good a compromise as any in my book.
lugal@sopuli.xyz 6 months ago
There is also a technological solution, I knew it
sukhmel@programming.dev 6 months ago
Leap day and new year day are supposed to not be a week day in this system
lugal@sopuli.xyz 6 months ago
My point exactly. So the programmer who commented above me is wrong in saying it makes it easier for them