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Re: Deciyear Calendar

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Post by Skeime »

bradley13 wrote: post #18

Proposals like thus are so unrealistic that it's difficult to take then seriously. This one has lots of problems, but perhaps the worst (and yet, easiest to fix) are the millidays. People do not naturally think in thousands. Put a separator in there. More fundamentally, the "second" is embedded everywhere in culture, science and engineering. Trying to replace the second with microdays is...let's be polite...suboptima…

I’m somewhat partial towards the centiday (roughly 15 minutes, 14m 24s to be precise).

Re: Deciyear Calendar

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Post by captn3m0 »

demondemidi wrote: post #17
vorticalbox wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

For conversation, "last October" is easier than "last month 10"

No it isn’t. If they were named Blorple and Frotz it would be harder than 10. Only because you’ve had your lifetime to learn the order of the Gregorian months is it in any way easier.

Day:Month::Number:Word makes for an easier pattern recognition. It’s the same DD/MM ambiguity problem, but using DD/OCT solves it quite well in conversation and otherwise.

Re: Deciyear Calendar

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Post by demondemidi »

captn3m0 wrote: post #24
demondemidi wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

No it isn’t. If they were named Blorple and Frotz it would be harder than 10. Only because you’ve had your lifetime to learn the order of the Gregorian months is it in any way easier.

Day:Month::Number:Word makes for an easier pattern recognition. It’s the same DD/MM ambiguity problem, but using DD/OCT solves it quite well in conversation and otherwise.

Only because you’ve been trained your life to know the order. Plus the words don’t even sort.

Re: Deciyear Calendar

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Post by robobro »

jowea wrote: post #14
thsksbd wrote: post #11

All the problems listed aren't real world problems. No one has a problem understanding the calendar and there are no engineering problems with it either unlike the inch. For the few folks in astronomy we have computers. Why would there be a problem? Half the world's population prays according to a base 7 week. Nor is this proposal new. Its been tried (at least) twice before failed spectacularly embittering people. Ba…

About understanding, we're used to it but you can't trivially know whether 02/05/2026 is a Monday. Even remembering whether July has 30 or 31 days can be a chore. Irregular months also can have some small annoying effects since "in a month" is not always the same amount of days. There's even the 360 day calendar for that https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/360-day_calendar Just one more in the long history of https://en.wi…

Year 2, month 5, day 2026?

Re: Deciyear Calendar

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Post by robobro »

franciscop wrote: post #12

Not a single mention of the topic/reason calendars were invented in the first place: keeping track of the 4 seasons (for agriculture purposes). Though since each month has 4 weeks, I can see a season being 2.5 months making sense. At least much more than the 13-month year.

There are not 4 seasons near the equator; we use lunar calendars in Islam and Buddhism both in Indonesia

Re: Deciyear Calendar

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Post by kevincox »

tolmasky wrote: post #20

This is worse than my 365 month calendar since it still has that ugly 5-day “year end”. In my calendar, every month is exactly one day long, no exceptions. Leap years simply add an extra month.

I think the 5 day "year end" is actually fine. So many people take lots of holidays around the end of the year so that period is kinda messed up anyways. It seems that it would be nice to just give everyone 5 days off and sort of unify it.

Since unfortunately 365 isn't a round number it seems like the best compromise. The other top approach would be counting days.

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