Bad 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

Developers are the only people against DST changes, just because of how complex it will get. Dear God cities are removing DST! Cities! It means I need to know if you are in or out of a city to know if you need to be shown daylight or standard time!

Just please do it nationally yes or no

thank you for your service, i usually resort to libraries doing the heavy lifting but even then it's tough and prone to error

Yeah sadly the rotations of Earth around its axis, the moon around Earth, and Earth around the sun don't divide each other nicely

There are a few websites and twitter accounts that remind you that today is Nonidi, 29 Germinal of the year CCXXXII.

Ah yes, the Balatro calendar. I play a King of Diamonds, which triples the number of days in June and removes October.

I actually had this happen once. My mental health actually improved, but it was untenable for my job and social life unfortunately. It was kinda nice for a couple months though.

We dine on the rich during month 13.

The solution to that is having 12 months of 4 weeks each, and one week of solstice every 3 months. One quarter then is 13 weeks in total. That makes it so each quarter perfectly matches a season and keeps it all in sync with solar time. In the ideal case you also match the school holidays to the solstice, and the winter solstice includes new year's day and leap day, making it just a bit longer for Christmas holidays.

Yes, I've given this a bit too much thought.

3 months and one week. Simples!

Kodak used this calendar for 60 years. The company's decline started within a decade of abandoning the calendar.

https://en.wikipedia.org/...

3 months 1 week?

Split it to 3 months as is now, then the remainder is 28 days. 28 is divisible by 4 to leave 7.

Q1 ends 1 week into April, Q2 ends 2 weeks into June, etc.

New years day is always a holiday that doesn't fall on any other day of the calendar. It's just kind of its own thing. No idea how that would actually work irl but that is usually how this proposal is explained.

Don't decimalize time, instead dozenalize our numbers! Twelve is such a better building block than ten. Pretty much all math becomes way easier using dozenal numbers instead of decimal ones.

Also, when are we going to do 10hrs/day, 100 min/hr and 100s/min?

This is how you collectively give the entire scientific community a simultaneous aneurysm. The amount of work needed to convert measurements based on our current seconds/minutes/hours to your "metric" seconds/minutes/hours would be astronomical.

Also, pretty much everyone already agrees on the current system of time, so why change it? It would just create another metric/imperial or F/C divide and cause conversion mistakes.

Oh god, converting imperial kHz to metric kHz sounds awful

The 24h cycle with subdivisions in 60 is easy for dividing them up though. 60 divides by 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 10, 12, 15, 20 and 30.

I like this better because if you have to do one holiday outside of the calendar then why not 5 and the equinoxes and solsctices divide it up perfectly. Then everything else is nice and even. I assume weeks were six days long as that is how I always thought of it. 5 six day weeks.

Seems like a high price to pay just to test who cares enough.

Why would they are? The amount they get a year is still the same amount, just broken up more evenly.

Blame the Caesars, Julius for July and Augustus for August.

Start the year on March 1st like it used to be?

Three months and one week still seems like a clean quarter to me.

Alternatively, if we really want to stick to the three-month quarter then we could call the extra week of each quarter an off-week or save it all for the 13th month of the year since nothing really gets done during that time anyway.

We should "just" switch to base-6 (or maybe 12) first

makes sense in a world without much fractions or the decimal system. You want to get the most divisors for your buck.

Get better at math and theres no problem.

This is the real discussion piece. We either always have Friday the 13th or we never do again.

I'm with you for always Friday the 13th.

Plus, never having one again just feels wrong.

People being afraid of the number 13 doesnt make it a bad idea.

That day would be new year's day, not an ordinary day. So those weeks would be

• Mon-Sun
• Leap day/international holiday, undated
• Mon-Sun

The international fixed calendar is basically what's described here. But it adds one day to bring it to 365, that day is called year day, and its an extra day, not a day of the week just a bonus day. Leap years get a second extra day 6 months later.

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?

Also imagine your birthday always being on a Monday...

We should all just switch to Unix time.

The 13th month should be called eleven, because it'd come after December (10), our 12th month.

Imagine if your birthday was always on Monday

It sounds like you need a rewatch. Jesse has about a quarter of Walt's intelligence and knowledge, if that.

We could all unionize and just take the first month off, set it in the deepest part of winter, January or so, and just set Christmas to be during that month. Although people might not be thrilled to move Christmas to after New Year's.

It's not really that hard to have a quarter be 3 months + 1 week tbh.

Iirc most countries consider Monday the beginning of the week and Sunday the end of the week, hence the term "weekend"

I used to think the same, even made fun of friends and family for setting calendars to start on Monday, but then I tried it and found the light