Symmetry454
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Symmetry454
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#2They need to give the months different names, so the two can coexist as long as needed.
Worldwide flag days are fatal to progress.
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#3Friday the 13th doesn't exist on this calendar. Neither do it's cousins Friday the 17th and Tuesday the 13th. Interesting.
This sounds great except the fact it would be a complete nightmare for developers the world over.
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#5I'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.
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#7Lousy Smarch weather!
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#8I 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.
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#9I'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.
It's more that there are 365¼ days per solar year. and seasons happen at ¼ year intervals.
Any calendar will need need to ensure that those relationships can be represented with only minor but consistent variations, e.g. leap years). Weeks largly stem from there being roughly 28 days in a lunar month.
If we're freeing ourselves from any relation to Earth's physical progression through space, e.g. 24 hr day, ~28 day solar month, or 365¼ day year, there would need to be a compelling reason, e.g. being a largely and widespread spacefaring civilization.
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#10The 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.