true I’ve heard about that, sure why not
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Typhoonigator@lemmy.world 2 months agoThis 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?
ben_dover@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Lifter@discuss.tchncs.de 2 months ago
Leap years aren’t every four years though, just FYI.
troglodytis@lemmy.world 2 months ago
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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.
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.
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.