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I've been thinking about alternative calendars recently. This is quite interesting. I wonder if we will ever get to a point that we can have a "base 10" calendar (10 day weeks, 10 months in a year, etc.) I suppose in-grained traditions that are so hard to change (birthdays, memorials, etc.) make this nigh impossible.
I've been thinking about alternative calendars recently. This is quite interesting. I wonder if we will ever get to a point that we can have a "base 10" calendar (10 day weeks, 10 months in a year, etc.) I suppose in-grained traditions that are so hard to change (birthdays, memorials, etc.) make this nigh impossible.
The two problems as I see it: - A leap week is worse than a leap year. 7 days of birthdays that just don’t exist most years. - No variety in day of week for your birthday. I know it’s just a cultural thing, but always celebrating a birthday on say a Tuesday sounds depressing to me.
I love it when ideas that have absolutely no chance of adoption get fully thought through anyway. Esperanto is a similar idea for language - too moonshotty, but complete. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esperanto
Why having months at all if they don't correspond to moon?
The irregular-length years must cause the equinoxes and solstices to shift around, although probably not enough to notice.
I love it when ideas that have absolutely no chance of adoption get fully thought through anyway. Esperanto is a similar idea for language - too moonshotty, but complete. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esperanto
Esperanto has actually been criticized for being half baked. There’s this whole website on the subject from a respected expert. In particular it’s really eurocentric.