Forebruary, an endless wall calendar

Post by YokoZar » Thu, Aug 01, 2013, 9:03 PM UTC

finnh wrote: post #20

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...

Post by jeroen » Thu, Aug 01, 2013, 9:09 PM UTC

Roedou wrote: post #38

k-mcgrady wrote: post #14

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February has 28 days - 29 in a leap year.

Thirty days has September, April, June, and November; All the rest have thirty-one except February alone which has twenty-eight; Except on every fourth year, when it has 29; Except on years divisible by 100, when it has 28 again; Unless the year is also divisible by 1000, when it's back to 29.

Post by icebraining » Thu, Aug 01, 2013, 9:30 PM UTC

saidajigumi wrote: post #31

freehunter wrote: post #22

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Every Intro to CS class could take a week out of their syllabus as suddenly the assignment "create a calendar application that takes input as dd/mm/yyyy and prints the day of the week" disappears from textbook. Although it would be quickly replaced with "create a calendar app to translate between Gregorian and Modern calendars."

Which would be a terrible idea. Delivering actual software is all about understanding the real-world problem domain , with all of the complexities inherent to it. Doing a "nerd normalization" of the calendar instead of teaching students how to model and deal with the existing one is pretty much exactly the wrong pedagogical approach.

Post by bobwaycott » Thu, Aug 01, 2013, 10:11 PM UTC

maxerickson wrote: post #42

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.

Or just use 3 digits for the day.

Post by bobwaycott » Thu, Aug 01, 2013, 10:22 PM UTC

sbierwagen wrote: post #48

bobwaycott wrote: post #47

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I've long wished we simply numbered days from the first of the year onward, and didn't bother with months. Today is 213.2013.

If you're going to make that big of a change, why not go all the way and use http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metric_time