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NewCalendar – is it too late to fix a Babylonyan mistake? (2009)
- joaoqalves 11y agoToo much free time, dude :)
- mappu 11y ago>same algorithm for determining which years are leap years as the Gregorian calendar It's ridiculous to propose overhauling the calendar without addressing what is IMO one of the most annoying parts about dealing with calendar dates.
- whoopdedo 11y agoAnd what alternative do you have in mind? We could redefine how long a year is. But that would require some tricky orbital engineering and a very large rocket.
- mappu 11y agoI don't have a serious suggestion. It would indeed necessarily involve decoupling the calendar year from the seasonal year. Three 487-day "years" lines up with 4x365 + 1 leap day, and the seasons are still regular (over a longer period).
- pierrebeaucamp 11y agoI'm all in for a calendar reform, but I prefer the Cotsworth plan: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Fixed_Calendar https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Fixed_Calendar
- kseistrup 11y agoIt resembles http://www.newearthcalendar.com/ http://www.newearthcalendar.com/ a bit.
- baisong 11y agoHere's a bit less radical calendar reform, to maximize ease of use: http://www.symcal.info/ http://www.symcal.info/