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One of the least endearing aspects of our current calendar is the weird numbers of days stuffed into the months. There's also those pesky movable feasts, like Easter.
The calandar could be easily simplified, thus:
Keep the existing 12 months, each with a standard 28 days.
Add another month
(Holimonth) ...the name works on a number of levels... also of 28 days.
That gives us 364 days.
Then we toss in a Free Day, or two Free Days for leap years.
The benefits?
4 weeks now DO equal one month.
Public holidays are on the same day each year.
Annual leave can be standardised at 4 weeks/year (I know, that's not usually the case in the US... this way you get to benefit from the rest of the world's enlightened labour laws)
Some people will be born in a new month... others can claim their anniversary now happens on the 28th, and again in a few days. It's a legacy issue for a couple of generations.
13 month calendar2
13_20month_20calendar2#1035075767
[xaviergisz, Mar 10 2008]
The Georgian Calendar
http://personal.ecu...cartyr/hirossa.html
[tatterdemalion, Mar 10 2008]
Here we go again...
http://en.wikipedia...iki/Calendar_reform
[MaxwellBuchanan, Mar 10 2008]
[link]
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So that means I can celebrate my birthday on October 2 instead of feeling ambivalent every September 11? Count me in. |
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Valentine's Day moves to February 17, Spring arrives on March 24, Summer on July 4, July 4 becomes July 17, and so on. I could get used to that, as long as every Free day is a paid day off. |
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I've always thought time should be based either on the Julian Date or number of seconds since the Julian Date. However, yes this would be moderately groovy. [+] |
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Ah, but what about people born on the Free Day? Maybe birthdays should just be decimalised. |
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I'm down with a Free day. I'm pretty sure the government would try to commandeer it by adding "dom" to the end of it. We're silly like that. |
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[rascalraidex] I didn't know you were a government. |
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Dude, you haven't heard of me?.. I gotta get some PR on top of that. I would tell you about it but I'm swamped at the moment, ya know, government stuff. |
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What happens to the weekday names? Are the Freedays automatically assigned new names?
I don't think 1 out of 7 folks would want their birthday to always fall on a Monday. |
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Everyone gets a paid holiday on the anniversary of their birthday. In exchange you all have to give up one public holiday. Which one do you want to abolish? |
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I would hate to try and book a vacation room during Holimonth. In fact, I would hate to see what this would do to the vacation industry anywhere. |
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I love the wonderfully arcane nature of both the calendar and the hours/minutes thing - all holidays should be based on the phases of the moon and people forced to calculate and describe their age in the original Sumerian sexagesimal notation and as a function of the angle (in degrees) of intersection between two geometric forms. |
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Sorry, but .... who would serve you your dinner, clean your hotel room, drive your taxi, etc during this holimonth? Are we talking some kind of gods and clods division here? |
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I'm not proposing anywhere ( that I noticed, anyway ) that Holimonth be a month off for everyone simultaneously. I just suggested everyone could have a month off. You drew the erroneous conclusions, people. |
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there's something nice about the idea of mathematically regular months, such as the newfound predictability - the moon's phases would fall on the same day of each month, as would, er, other phases. |
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And it would save having to count on my knuckles every time I want to figure out how many days are left in the month. |
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But what, I need to know, would happen when we exchange the handy divisibility of 12 for the prime of 13? Quarterly magazines every 3 months and a week? bi-annual events every six and a half months? my brain is too small for these fractions. I might have to stick with illogical anachronistic time, methinks. |
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//the moon's phases would fall on the
same day of each month// No they
wouldn't. Not unless each month were
29.53 days long. |
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There are three basic periods involved -
the rotation of the earth, the moon's orbit
around the earth, and the earth's orbit
around the sun. Good luck finding a
common denominator. |
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I don't see why we need months at all - they're just a bad attempt at squeezing lunar partterns into the solar calendar. I would retain the days of the week for ease of job scheduling (so 5-on, 2-off is still easy to follow), and number the weeks 1 to 52. Still needs a Free Day or two to fit properly.
So today would be Tuesday, 03/11/2008 (assuming Week 1 is the first week or part week of the year, so this year would have begun on Tuesday, 03/01/2008. That bit could get confusing; I may need to put some more thought into this...) |
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I freakin' love calendars, dude. |
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//So today would be Tuesday, 03/11/2008// |
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No, today would be 11/03/2008 or 2008/03/11 but not some bassackwards US-specific date format. 9/11 is November the 9th, by the way.
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As for 12 vs 13... I would prefer to see 10 months in a year, each of 100 days, comprising 10 hours of darkness and ten hours of light (On the autumn and spring solstices) with 100 minutes in an hour and 100 seconds in a minute (Each new second would be 0.432 current seconds... which is reasonable if you regard a second as a number of vibrations of a caesium atom) giving us 200,000 seconds or 200 kiloseconds per day.
That would make a year 1000 days long, or 2 years, 8 months, 25 days of current time. |
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In current time units, I prefer to represent it as 2008:03:11 16:31:54 Just a lot more logical that way. |
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ahh, you're right, MB - I was thinking 28 days was way too regular-sounding for a randomly-sized lump of rock. but then there are, uh, other cycles which apparently ARE 28 days, on average. I think that was the 'predictable phase' I found most important. knowing when my girlfriend's cranky is a great survival boon. |
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I rather prefer our bassackwards dating convention. Makes sorting a filename with a date in its namestring easier. |
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The 28-day month is an oldd, old idea - coming from the cycle of the Moon - and is why our present months are all clsoe to 28 days long. |
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More relevantly, the Halffbaked calendar already has 13 28-day months, courtesy herr waugsqueke (I think his original idea was deleted, tho). As for myself, I happen to agree that now we have clocks and computers to tell the time for us, it makes a heck of a lot more sense than 12 months of varying lengths. The only people really affected by this change would be accountants, who would be unable to divide the year into quarters. |
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And those pesky moveable feasts - that "movement" arises precisely because they are based on one or other of the lunar calendars, force fitted to the Gregorian calendar. |
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[UnaBubba], sorry for creating confusion, I completely missed the duality of yesterdays date.
I meant that it was the 3rd day of the 11th week of the year, not noticing that it was also the 11th day of the 3rd month of the year. I don't like the USA version either (comes from saying 'March 11th' instead of 'the 11th of March', then converting to numbers). |
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That's why I use YYYYMMDD for filenames, [RS]. It makes them easier to find, especially after a few years. |
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13 months...it could work. |
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