You advocate a ________ approach to calendar reform (2013)
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Re: You advocate a ________ approach to calendar reform (2013)
#2> your name for the thirteenth month is questionable
In my plan for twelve 30-day months, I intended to call the leftover 5/6 days "Etcember", for et cetera. :P
(This submission appears to be a riff on the classic "Programming Language Checklist": https://www.famicol.in/language_checklist.html )
Re: You advocate a ________ approach to calendar reform (2013)
#3> having one or two days per year which are part of no month is stupid
> having one or two days per year with no day of the week is asinine
These don't sound like real reasons to me. If it costs having a 13th month with just a few days in it or a NO_DAY_OF_WEEK constant in my DAYS_OF_WEEK enum, I'd take it if it meant all of the weirdness was limited to a few days always located at the end of the year. Sounds like a convenient place to put leap seconds as well! While you're at it, make those days holidays for most people, so that when tech inevitably breaks due to the weirdness, those of us who get paged for such things can fix them in peace before the rest of the world starts back up a few days later.
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Re: You advocate a ________ approach to calendar reform (2013)
#5A time scheme in which sunrise is always at same time (skewing the clock by a few seconds or minutes every day at three a.m.) is likely a boon to human health. Smart watches and Alexa/Siri take care of time zone calculations. The fact that two dimensional time zones skew a bit more at the poles is a silly reason to dismiss the idea. The poles are weird for a bunch of other reasons and no time works there.
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#6If the USA can’t convert to metric, despite passing laws to that affect, my belief that the world will adopt a new calendar system is less than non-existent.
Re: You advocate a ________ approach to calendar reform (2013)
#7> having one or two days per year which are part of no month is stupid
There are some valid points in there but this kind of thing is not productive. No need to be rude.
Re: You advocate a ________ approach to calendar reform (2013)
#8> your name for the thirteenth month is questionable In my plan for twelve 30-day months, I intended to call the leftover 5/6 days "Etcember", for et cetera. :P (This submission appears to be a riff on the classic "Programming Language Checklist": https://www.famicol.in/language_checklist.html )
Which in turn is a riff on the "spam solutions" checklist: https://craphound.com/spamsolutions.txt
Re: You advocate a ________ approach to calendar reform (2013)
#9> your name for the thirteenth month is questionable In my plan for twelve 30-day months, I intended to call the leftover 5/6 days "Etcember", for et cetera. :P (This submission appears to be a riff on the classic "Programming Language Checklist": https://www.famicol.in/language_checklist.html )
In fact it is based on the older spam checklist:
Re: You advocate a ________ approach to calendar reform (2013)
#10Newcomers to qntm.org are advised to browse around a bit. There's some great stuff here. Here's one: