I like this better than the French revolutionary calendar’s ten-day weeks. Maybe if they had included more than two weekend days people wouldn’t have hated it so much
While we’re changing the calendar, can we rename September through December so they’re not off by two?
Septem, Octo, Novem and Decem are the Latin words for 7, 8, 9 and 10 respectively, but they’re actually the 9th, 10th, 11th and 12th months of the year. This is because the Roman calendar was originally only 10 months, but Julius Caesar inserted two new months in the middle, without renaming the last four.
Maybe the oldest tech debt in existence - the calendar was changed in 45 BC.
Combined with Holocene calendar and decimal time… hnrggh… one can dream! I actually designed a spreadsheet for exactly this and it works perfectly. Only issue is that it doesn’t auto-update, you need to edit an empty cell of the spreadsheet (doesn’t even need to be saved), for it to update to the current time.
Would be nice to have an installation that lets you use that calendar and time format…
Yeah, I’m a fan of using minutes instead of percentages. For example instead of 33.3̅% you can write :20 or 20’ - like in the old fixed-point arithmetic days!
Worse than that, in order to preserve the date/day-of-week correlation, the extra 1-2 days (you still need leap years) would not have to be part of any week.
So that’s instant opposition from all the Abrahamic religions.
This could be every month if we adopted a 13 month calendar of 4, 7 day weeks. Works out very cleanly with only 1 extra day per year.
I like this better than the French revolutionary calendar’s ten-day weeks. Maybe if they had included more than two weekend days people wouldn’t have hated it so much
The best part is that every date (i.e. the 1st, the 22nd, etc) would always fall on the same day of the week, every month.
While we’re changing the calendar, can we rename September through December so they’re not off by two?
Septem, Octo, Novem and Decem are the Latin words for 7, 8, 9 and 10 respectively, but they’re actually the 9th, 10th, 11th and 12th months of the year. This is because the Roman calendar was originally only 10 months, but Julius Caesar inserted two new months in the middle, without renaming the last four.
Maybe the oldest tech debt in existence - the calendar was changed in 45 BC.
In Japanese months are named based on the number of the month, literally “first month” to “12th month”, which is the most sensible way to do it
Why not just call February 2026 “month 2 of 2026” and call the 9th of February 2026 “the 9th of month 2 of 2026”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Fixed_Calendar
The true ideal.
Behold Symmetry454, the TRUE true ideal.
Combined with Holocene calendar and decimal time… hnrggh… one can dream! I actually designed a spreadsheet for exactly this and it works perfectly. Only issue is that it doesn’t auto-update, you need to edit an empty cell of the spreadsheet (doesn’t even need to be saved), for it to update to the current time.
Would be nice to have an installation that lets you use that calendar and time format…
I actually like the 12 or 60 based time! Couldn’t we change to base 12 for everything instead? 🥺
Time already is that.
Yeah, I’m a fan of using minutes instead of percentages. For example instead of 33.3̅% you can write :20 or 20’ - like in the old fixed-point arithmetic days!
But then we’d have to deal with that lousy Smarch weather
People are superstitious and would never allow a 13th month
Worse than that, in order to preserve the date/day-of-week correlation, the extra 1-2 days (you still need leap years) would not have to be part of any week.
So that’s instant opposition from all the Abrahamic religions.