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Forebruary, an endless wall calendar

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Re: Forebruary, an endless wall calendar

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Post by rlt3 »

forinti wrote: post #7

If we had 13 months, all of them would have exactly 28 days. We would need and extra day in order to complete 365 days, but we could make it a special case (the first day of the year, for instance) not belonging to any month or week. Then all months would be alike, every 1st, 8th, 15th, etc, would be a Sunday, and so on. We would never need a calendar again.

I don't really know why, but I like the imperfectness of our calendar system now.

Stupid stuff like February having only 29 days is pretty funny and those 7 days of December 25th to January 1st is perfect because its an exact week.

It would be too boring if every month was the same.

Could we have fun stuff like `April Showers Bring may Flowers' if every month was just the same 28 days? I'm sure we could, but everything would be the same and that's boring.

Re: Forebruary, an endless wall calendar

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Post by dragonwriter »

forinti wrote: post #7

If we had 13 months, all of them would have exactly 28 days. We would need and extra day in order to complete 365 days, but we could make it a special case (the first day of the year, for instance) not belonging to any month or week. Then all months would be alike, every 1st, 8th, 15th, etc, would be a Sunday, and so on. We would never need a calendar again.

> If we had 13 months, all of them would have exactly 28 days. We would need and extra day in order to complete 365 days

And sometimes another extra day in order to complete 366 days.

Re: Forebruary, an endless wall calendar

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Post by k-mcgrady »

rlt3 wrote: post #11
forinti wrote: post #7

If we had 13 months, all of them would have exactly 28 days. We would need and extra day in order to complete 365 days, but we could make it a special case (the first day of the year, for instance) not belonging to any month or week. Then all months would be alike, every 1st, 8th, 15th, etc, would be a Sunday, and so on. We would never need a calendar again.

I don't really know why, but I like the imperfectness of our calendar system now. Stupid stuff like February having only 29 days is pretty funny and those 7 days of December 25th to January 1st is perfect because its an exact week. It would be too boring if every month was the same. Could we have fun stuff like `April Showers Bring may Flowers' if every month was just the same 28 days? I'm sure we could, but everythi…

February has 28 days - 29 in a leap year.

Re: Forebruary, an endless wall calendar

#15

Post by grecy »

This looks fantastic, but it doesn't give me any reference as to which month I'm actually looking at.... i.e. I drag the frame so that the 1st is a Saturday, but what month in what year am I looking at? Will the 1st of July 2015 be a Saturday, I have no idea from this.

Re: Forebruary, an endless wall calendar

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Post by untog »

forinti wrote: post #7

If we had 13 months, all of them would have exactly 28 days. We would need and extra day in order to complete 365 days, but we could make it a special case (the first day of the year, for instance) not belonging to any month or week. Then all months would be alike, every 1st, 8th, 15th, etc, would be a Sunday, and so on. We would never need a calendar again.

Is the existing system really that broken, though? It's a pain, but it works. People know it.

The pain of moving to a new calendar system would be considerably bigger than the pain of dealing with the current system.

Re: Forebruary, an endless wall calendar

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Post by forinti »

untog wrote: post #17
forinti wrote: post #7

If we had 13 months, all of them would have exactly 28 days. We would need and extra day in order to complete 365 days, but we could make it a special case (the first day of the year, for instance) not belonging to any month or week. Then all months would be alike, every 1st, 8th, 15th, etc, would be a Sunday, and so on. We would never need a calendar again.

Is the existing system really that broken, though? It's a pain, but it works. People know it. The pain of moving to a new calendar system would be considerably bigger than the pain of dealing with the current system.

It's a shame nobody had the idea in 1582. Since they were tweaking the Julian calendar, they could have been a bit bolder.

Re: Forebruary, an endless wall calendar

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Post by ultramundane828 »

grecy wrote: post #15

This looks fantastic, but it doesn't give me any reference as to which month I'm actually looking at.... i.e. I drag the frame so that the 1st is a Saturday, but what month in what year am I looking at? Will the 1st of July 2015 be a Saturday, I have no idea from this.

I have this problem too. Am I supposed to be able to derive a date from the calendar? Am I missing some element on the page?

I generally don't have a lot of interest in time, so I don't have whatever relevant knowledge this might require (if any).

Re: Forebruary, an endless wall calendar

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Post by finnh »

forinti wrote: post #7

If we had 13 months, all of them would have exactly 28 days. We would need and extra day in order to complete 365 days, but we could make it a special case (the first day of the year, for instance) not belonging to any month or week. Then all months would be alike, every 1st, 8th, 15th, etc, would be a Sunday, and so on. We would never need a calendar again.

And people's birthdays wouldn't rotate around the days of the week, which would be lame for 5/7 of the population.

Edit: back to Forebruary, I think it's quite nice looking. and the timeline at the bottom is awesome. Reminiscent of the timeline in "Rock Me Amadeus". one of these things is not like the others...

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