Comment on Or we could do metric time

ben_dover@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• Typhoonigator@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  This meme already ignores the fact that it’s only produced a calendar of 364 days.

  Most proposed versions I’ve seen of this calendar have New Year’s Day as a standalone holiday, so the leap day presumably tacks on to that every 4 years?

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  • NeatNit@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Currently, everyone in the world agrees and the days of the week (correct me if I’m wrong). If it’s Monday in France it’s Monday in Finland, except a few hours due to timezones. But if a particular society adopts this system, or any system under which every year starts on a particular day of the week and is solar aligned, that necessitates losing that sync with the entire rest of the world.

    A possible solution is to only use leap weeks. So every year has 364 days, but every 6 years or so (spare me the exact calculation) you track on a leap week to realign with the solar cycle. This is similar to the leap month in the Hebrew calendar - months follow the moon so a leap month is the smallest unit possible to tweak the length of a year.

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    • Tnaeriv@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      You’re wrong. For example: most of the country of Kiribati will never be in the same day of the week as Hawaii.

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      • NeatNit@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Right, I forgot about that edge case… But at least they agree about a particular date’s day of the week, don’t they? And they’re consistently one day off. This proposed system would be inconsistently off, sometimes in sync and sometimes 3 days off.

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  • ben_dover@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    true I’ve heard about that, sure why not

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  • Lifter@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Leap years aren’t every four years though, just FYI.

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    • troglodytis@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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• dingus@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Also imagine your birthday always being on a Monday…

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