I think I have seen this like 15 years ago at my office.
Forebruary, an endless wall calendar
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#92The 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…
Sunday has always (FSVO) been the start of the week - it's not an American thing at all (indeed I've found Europeans get more confused when you don't start a week on Sunday). The Sabbath - the seventh day of the week referred to in Genesis - was Saturday, and Jews still celebrate it as such - Christians moved a lot of the way it's treated to Sunday. "Weekend" is just a catchy name; "weekboundary" would be much more c…
I'm European and I start the week on Monday. I don't think it makes me more confused than I normally am.
Re: Forebruary, an endless wall calendar
#93The 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…
Sunday has always (FSVO) been the start of the week - it's not an American thing at all (indeed I've found Europeans get more confused when you don't start a week on Sunday). The Sabbath - the seventh day of the week referred to in Genesis - was Saturday, and Jews still celebrate it as such - Christians moved a lot of the way it's treated to Sunday. "Weekend" is just a catchy name; "weekboundary" would be much more c…
Although "end", when used for time, usually refers to the chronologically later boundary of a period, there are other senses of the word in which an end can also be a start: a line has two ends, and we say "from end to end", for example.
Thus, I don't think it's necessarily contradictory to speak of an end of a week that also comes at the start - and that's without even thinking about the inherently cyclical nature of the week.
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I suggest you do what I did and redefine your birthday the way they do Federal Holidays. It's not "September 22nd" for me anymore, it's "The 4th Saturday in September".
How well does that work with authorities and other entities that demand your birthdate? I mean, here they don't like it already when I give them a date in YYYY-MM-DD; I can't imagine what they'd do if one used FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=SA;BYMONTH=9;BYSETPOS=4 ...
Authorities generally aren't invited to my birthday parties.
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#96This 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…
I seriously doubt most people think of it like that.
That's exactly how people think of it in the U.S.
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Actually in ISO-8601 it's 2013-213. There is a standard for dates and stuff we can readily use ;-)
At work, I prefer 2013-08-02, because humans can read and understand it, and it sorts correctly.
YYYY-DDD sorts correctly too; and this was about day-of-year notation ;-). But agreed, generally everyone should use ISO 8601.
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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…
From a developer standpoint, I loathe our calendar/time system. The world has wasted shit load of time & money trying to fix stupid bugs with our time systems, I would welcome a more linear system.
Meh, a lot of that is buried away in libraries and stuff and I never worry about it.
Time zones on the other hand...
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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.
or use just the left hand and tap twice on knuckle of forefinger for july and August :)
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Use your knuckles, with both hands next to each other, from left to right Jan - Dec. Each 'hump' has 31 days.
Yes, this is the way I remember. My wife quotes the rhyme and I annoy her by pointing out the following issues: 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…
My grandfather used to say "Thirty days has November, all the rest I can't remember."