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13 Fridays the 13th

Jason would unionize if he had that many hours of work to do

Yay for The Human Calculator Calendar. Boo for not crediting sources. A missed opportunity to replace Jesse's name with, "Scott."

Double boo for not explaining the extra day every year, not to mention leap year. (364 / 28 = 13.)

Final boo for conflating the real world ~29.5 day imprecise lunar month with the 28 day English common law lunar month.

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How is no one in here talking about the International Fixed Calendar? It was exactly this, and Kodak used it for 60 years. It does work. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Fixed_Calendar

Kodak used to operate on this 13 month calendar. When I asked someone who used to work there, she was shocked that I knew about it and said that it was the best thing about working there. The original plan that this calendar is based on called for a liminal day between years for New Year's Day with 2 days for leap years

Every birthday you have, for your entire life, being on a Wednesday.

Sounds great.

Well if the 1st is on Sunday then every month would have a Friday 13th.

No no no. Let him talk. He's making sense.

See also: Metric time.

10hrs in a day. 100min in a hour. 100 sec in a min.

I don't wanna pay bills for another month

Let’s make each month 73 days.

5 months. We can figure out a season for each one!

And pay less than half as much rent!

Fuck it. No-one is this thread can seem to agree, so I'm making a unilateral declaration that from here on out, all units of time except for the second are abolished, and we just use unix time for everything. You have until 1699217619s to make the switch.

Except that a lunar cycle is 29.5 days long.

The Jews recognized this and their calendar runs akin to it (https://www.timeanddate.com/date/jewish-leap-year.html), but with 7 "leap months" occurring over the course of 19 years. Of course, then they fuck it up with extra or fewer days to keep certain holidays from falling on certain days of the week. You win some, you lose some.

Let this mofo cook.

Two words: Seasonal regression

Smarch of course

I like this one:

Dekatrian Calendar (translated to english)

Calendário Dekatrian (original)

I've never been a fan of this idea, it doesn't go far enough and further makes things less symmetric/divisible. I say we use 6-day weeks, 5 weeks per month, 12 months per year, and an inter-calary holiday week of 5-6 days. A six day week means 4 days working, 2 days rest, and that can be staggered more easily/equitably assuming work needs full coverage in a week. We start the new year on the Spring Equinox because it's generally more pleasant.

For bonus points, we switch to base-12 (or dozenal) in our numbering system because after the transition it's a much easier system to deal with as far as division and multiplication is concerned (e.g. 1/4 would be .3 instead of .25, 1/3 is .4 instead of .333..., 1/2 is .6, etc.).

Octember it will be after October. The names will be just as incorrect as they have been for way too long but if anyone wanted the names and order to correspond to their own meaning it would have been fixed by now.

What was the original idea of our calendar? And did every month have 8 weeks or so? Were weeks longer?