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I actually have a keychain just like this, I was always surprised it never caught on as much as it could have because they're extremely useful. http://keychainarchives.com/image/56257326138 EDIT: This keychain is also very old, 70s to early 80s
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.
Although it would be quickly replaced with "create a calendar app to translate between Gregorian and Modern calendars."
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.
Cool, but it seems you need to remember how many days are in the current month yes? It always shows a full 31 days.
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.
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.
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.
It's a wall calendar - it only shows one month at a time - presumably, the current month.
It feels like I'm missing something.
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.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middle-earth_calendar#Hobbit_C...
If we were to adopt a similar scheme outside of Middle Earth, I'd be in favor of borrowing the name.
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.
It's a wall calendar - it only shows one month at a time - presumably, the current month.
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 you read the Lord of the Rings appendices, you will find that Shirefolk do something similar: they divide the year into 12 months of 30 days each, with a four-day midsummer holiday called Lithe. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middle-earth_calendar#Hobbit_C... If we were to adopt a similar scheme outside of Middle Earth, I'd be in favor of borrowing the name.