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This little bit of snark gave me a laugh: "The red stripe highlights the weekend. For the United States, where week starts on Sunday (but it is anyway considered a part of weekend), alternative frames can be produced." Can I just say? Sunday and Saturday are the week end because they are on each end of the week. If you stack them both up at the back, only Sunday would get to be the weekend. Saturday would just be the…
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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.
2013.213 would sort better (in existing systems).
> Yury Gagarin goes to the space
Gotta love Russian-flavour English.
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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.
Which is itself quite similar to the French Republican Calendar adopted after the revolution, and which was used for about 13 years. This divided the year into 12 months, each composed of 3 weeks of 10 days each. At the end of the year there were 5 'extra' days (or 6 in the case of leap years). http://www.webexhibits.org/calendars/calendar-french.html
This little bit of snark gave me a laugh: "The red stripe highlights the weekend. For the United States, where week starts on Sunday (but it is anyway considered a part of weekend), alternative frames can be produced." Can I just say? Sunday and Saturday are the week end because they are on each end of the week. If you stack them both up at the back, only Sunday would get to be the weekend. Saturday would just be the…
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I grew up with this: Thirty days has September, April, June, and November, All the rest have thirty-one except February, Which has four and twenty-four, 'til leap year gives it one day more.
Use your knuckles, with both hands next to each other, from left to right Jan - Dec. Each 'hump' has 31 days.
1 - 3 lines of the rhyme at the end are utterly pointless as it's much easier to just remember that leap years are actually a thing.
2 - The fact that it rhymes doesn't help you remember which months you're talking about. It could quite easily be, "30 days hath September; October, November, December" and it would still rhyme but be wrong.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/joelanman/sets/7215759450272255...
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Which is itself quite similar to the French Republican Calendar adopted after the revolution, and which was used for about 13 years. This divided the year into 12 months, each composed of 3 weeks of 10 days each. At the end of the year there were 5 'extra' days (or 6 in the case of leap years). http://www.webexhibits.org/calendars/calendar-french.html
A 10-day week would be really uncomfortable. It would mean 8 days work and 2 days rest, rather than the current 5-2 split, which seems to be the most comfortable.
I'm sure it had some meaningful significance in the past, but really, I doubt anyone will get mad if you started printing the calendar from the Monday on the left, in America too.
The comment at the bottom about the US weekend tickled me. I never really thought about it, but holy guacamole, is it weird that Americans have the week starting on a Sunday, and consider it part of the weekend. Why the HECK are calendars printed with Sunday at the front? This doesn't even need any kind of "restructuring of the Gregorian Calendar or adopting a new more sensible one" (as the rest of this thread seems…
"Weekend" is just a catchy name; "weekboundary" would be much more cumbersome.