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Re: Deciyear Calendar

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Post by kibwen »

When it comes to the number of months in the year, 10 is an entirely arbitrary number because, unlike the metric system, there's no opportunity to leverage the convenient zero-shifting property of a base-10 numeral system (the concept of "kilomonths" and "megamonths" is incoherent as a unit of measure given that the number of days in a year is not divisible by 10). Might as well just smooth out the current 12 months (12 being a more highly composite number than 10) to 30 days each and then save the leftover days for a worldwide party outside of time.

Re: Deciyear Calendar

#34

Post by Juliate »

demondemidi wrote: post #26
captn3m0 wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

They don't sort... in your language, or how you call them. So what?

Re: Deciyear Calendar

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Post by Juliate »

brvsft wrote: post #19
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…

This is denial. There are absolutely problematic side-effects with the existing calendar system, and the obvious use-cases that jumped out to me are on the business/financial side. Yes, the changing length of months makes financial planning slightly more difficult. The arbitrary nature of how many non-business days occurs in a month cause issues (some months can have many more 'business' days than other months, skewi…

> But the somewhat random nature of how weekends and certain holidays are distributed throughout the calendar can have effects on business, and presumably other areas.

Yes, and? Isn't it to be expected? Calendars are long-living standards, that adjust over long periods of time, because of the practical impact they have on societies.

Why should those commons adjust themselves in order to satisfy self-imposed, often antisocial business requirements? (how MoM revenue performance is calculated and rewarded is strictly a concern for said businesses).

If it should contribute to an underperforming year for your company, it would be a way lesser factor than the lack of preparation or perspective from its owners/executives, because the calendar-related discrepancies are already known in advance (and it's not a particularly recent phenomenon either).

Would even such a deciyear (or any other new) calendar be adopted, it would "diverge" again in the next 10/20 years by the simple sheer force of society cultural evolution: "we will have more bank days here", "we need more working days there", "ho, we need to mark this particular date because of this event", "ho, these partner countries follow a new tradition, we need to adjust somehow".

Ok. Perhaps a new calendaring system could make sense for businesses. The only way forward would be for businesses first to design and adopt it, in parallel with the public calendar system, and show how it works better. Would there be a favorable business case? Especially in relation with financial and regulatory requirements which are still based on civil years? (and even different across countries)

Re: Deciyear Calendar

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Post by Juliate »

robobro wrote: post #28
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

Does it make use of the equinoxes and solstices or is it strictly lunar-based?

Re: Deciyear Calendar

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Post by wodenokoto »

vorticalbox wrote: post #13
demondemidi wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why even name the months?

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

Japanese gets away with doing that. So does Chinese - They even give the weekdays numbers. People will adapt and start to think of it as nouns, if you introduce it wide enough.
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