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> 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
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> so all years are the start of a decade This isn't the standard technical meaning of 'decade'.
“Decade” isn’t a technical term, which is the point here. It has no intrinsic meaning except “a span of ten years”. Everything else is nominal, not technical; conflating the two is basically nerd sniping, and enlightens no-one.
This whole article and thread is about building technical systems for dates.
In a technical context, 'decade' is a term with a specific standard meaning, which is that it starts on a year ending with a zero.
It's not nerd sniping to point that out in a thread already all about giving dates precise technical meanings!
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I tend to agree with the concept, but you'd probably have to address holidays that are season-specific. Perhaps 'Christmas is always in the third winter time-block', or something to that effect.
() Your solution shows you don't understand hemispheres or seasons.
I don't. Who does??
When was the last time a city dweller needed to worry about where the Earth or moon was?
Things we do need to know:
• How many days in a row do I have to work
• When do I get my next paycheck
• When is X product coming out
• How long do we have to put up with X politician
• When should I plan a vacation
• When will it get colder or warmer
Except for maybe the last 2 questions, all of the above can be answered by a calendar that has nothing to do with astronomy whatsoever.
Farmers and scientists can continue to use the astronomical calendar of their choice. Perhaps make one that is specifically designed for them, in maybe a S%.M% format, where S% is the percentage of Earth's solar orbital period we are currently at, and M% is the moon's orbit.
For the rest of us ordinary folk, we would be fine with a "Human Calendar" that is simply a cycle of working days weekends, with some holidays thrown in every N weeks.
Say a 4/2 or 4/3 (work/rest) day week, 4 weeks in a Human Month, and an 8-10 day holiday every 3 such months.
A Human Year could be the equivalent of 9 or 10 months of the current calendar, the average duration a new person takes from conception to birth. :)
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I hate to scapegoat, but there are a bunch of odd things the US does because boomers like things the way they've always been. Why were a bunch of new Christmas songs written 60 years ago and barely a song a decade has been added to the repertoire since? George Michael is dead, and Mariah Carey seemed touch and go for a while, and those are pretty much the last two people to create a successful Christmas song (and the…
> Why were a bunch of new Christmas songs written 60 years ago and barely a song a decade has been added to the repertoire since? George Michael is dead, and Mariah Carey seemed touch and go for a while, and those are pretty much the last two people to create a successful Christmas song (and the less said about Do They Know It's Christmas, the better) I don't see how the Boomers get the blame here. The two obvious su…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m7PlSJNFfII
The composition's originally from the turn of the century, but as you can see above they've gone mainstream in the decades since.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xviBEvbxgZ0
[1] not exactly christmas, but it's got family, decorated trees, vacation time, TV specials, and a guy in robes with a beard handing out presents. Porting should be trivial.
I really like the discordian calendar as it replaces chaotic months with regular 73 day long seasons, which are based on numerology. The only thing that was overlooked was the beginning of the year. The day which is the first of the year is pretty arbitrary as well, using the day of winter solstice would make much more sense. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discordian_calendar
> 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.
how about we just do away with months altogether. One or two days per year that aren't in a month would be weird but 365ish days should be fine, right?
You don't need to be condescending to make a point - and that is my point. This person shared this rant and I gave feedback about the rant, not the subject of the rant.