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Re: Symmetry454

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Post by james_s_tayler » Mon, Dec 16, 2019, 1:52 PM UTC

tzs wrote: post #12

Thorentis wrote: post #5

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.

Too much risk that 10 day weeks would end up still only having a 2 day weekend off of work leaving an 8 consecutive day work week.

What?

The obvious conclusion is that they would have only 1 day off.

Re: Symmetry454

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Post by reaperducer » Mon, Dec 16, 2019, 1:52 PM UTC

filesystemdude wrote: post #23

martin-adams wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Also the excessive variability of being paid monthly but having only 4 weeks of expenses vs 5 the next would be a challenge.

I assume if the entire world is spending billions of dollars reworking culture, infrastructure, software, etc., that swapping to making weekly pay the norm is just a bit of noise in that transition.

That doesn't work for people who are on commission.

Re: Symmetry454

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Post by pndy » Mon, Dec 16, 2019, 2:09 PM UTC

Thorentis wrote: post #5

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.

> "base 10" calendar

I believe that the closest thing that existed was French Republican calendar [1], accompanied by decimal time [2]. The Swatch Internet Time [3] which uses decimal minute at its base is also worth mentioning - it's almost forgotten nowadays.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_Republican_calendar

[2] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decimal_time

[3] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swatch_Internet_Time

Re: Symmetry454

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Post by anon73044 » Mon, Dec 16, 2019, 3:10 PM UTC

saagarjha wrote: post #17

dvh wrote: post #16

Why having months at all if they don't correspond to moon?

Why have a horsepower if it doesn’t correspond to a horse?

That's why they're trying to make us conversation to kilowatts

Re: Symmetry454

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Post by dvh » Mon, Dec 16, 2019, 4:40 PM UTC

snak wrote: post #30

Rerarom wrote: post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

In my language 'month' and 'moon' are the same word and some people still don't make the connection. I once had someone ask me, when I was talking about some period of x months in antiquity, if they had months (moons) back then.

Which language?

Not op but Slovak (mesiac), Czech (mesic).