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> 2020 is the beginning of a decade, because colloquially it's easier and understandable But 2020 is technically the start of a decade, not just informally.
Well, technically every day is the start of a decade.
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And yet people will say that 2000 is the beginning of the millenium, and 2020 is the beginning of a decade, because colloquially it's easier and understandable. And no amount of begging, pleading, or berating will change that (although it might get you punched in the face). That pope Gregory XIII neglected to include a year 0 in his calendar doesn't have to condemn us to suffer the mental gymnastics in our daily live…
> 2020 is the beginning of a decade, because colloquially it's easier and understandable But 2020 is technically the start of a decade, not just informally.
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> 2020 is the beginning of a decade, because colloquially it's easier and understandable But 2020 is technically the start of a decade, not just informally.
That would imply that not all decades are 10 years long, sice there was no year 0.
> 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 )
This sounds like the French Revolutionary Calendar: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_Republican_calendar
I advocate a solution similar to proposals floated years ago on alt.pave.the.earth on UseNet. 1. Disintegrate the moon, anyone who has ever advocated for lunar calendars, and anyone who fails to convincingly support this Plan(tm), converting their mass to energy that we can use for productive purposes such as orbital adjustments. 2. Adjust the rotational period of the earth to an aesthetically pleasing multiple of th…
> Adjust the axial tilt and orbital eccentricity of the earth to eliminate "seasons". So you’re the guy who wants to kill summer?
(2013) Previous discussion (the only substantial one at any rate): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11193152 The main problem with calendar reform as I see it is that network effects and lock-in mean that unless everyone changes at once it'll never stick. I've long felt that the optimal time for calendar reform was several decades ago -- with increasing computerisation the cost of switching has gone up over time,…
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Time zones were a premature optimization. Now we all have GPS, so we can return to location based times.
Timezones were introduced as a generalization of country wide time references. And those were introduced because trains became so fast that calculating train tables with local time was very confusing. That issue wouldn’t be solved with GPS.