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Wait, I can't buy this from him?! Anyone know of a place that I can get something similar? Or recommendations on the best was to make one?
Search for a "perpetual calendar" or "eternal calendar". They used to be reasonably common as desk accessories and are still made as promotional items.
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…
> A line has got two ends. A counterpoint of equal snark and uselessness: No, it has one "start" and one "end", especially if it's a one-way line.
And yes, it's all meant lightheartedly, as I assume the original sentence was.
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…
Both in your case with calendar and in case of dustincoates and the Imperial units, I think you like the way things are because you got used to it.
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.
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I seriously doubt most people think of it like that.
That's exactly how people think of it in the U.S.
So here we go, it's a perfect example of rationalization - how humans can find any amount of reasons why their arbitrary choice is the natural one.
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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…
I was taught:
Thirty Days has September,
April, June and November.
All the rest have Thirty One;
Except February, it's a different one!Earlier quoted context omitted.
I seriously doubt most people think of it like that.
That's exactly how people think of it in the U.S.