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As long as we're rewriting the calendar, I have a bone to pick with Hanke-Henry. Just make every month 30 days, and tuck five or six intercalary days at the en
by brownbat 11y ago
As long as we're rewriting the calendar, I have a bone to pick with Hanke-Henry.
Just make every month 30 days, and tuck five or six intercalary days at the end of the year according to the standard leap year rule. These intercalary days will be holidays for visiting family, and we'll shift them and New Years so that they will occur in the spring, where weather is generally more conducive to travel. Additionally, the 1st of every month will be a holiday, "New Month Monday," for celebrating whatever you want to commemorate for that month. For countries that want more holidays, add your next one on every [fourth | second | single] 15th of the month.
Countries that want fewer holidays will be excluded from our new time utopia on principle.
- twiceaday 11y ago1 Month = 4 Weeks seems better. A week is a very natural measure of time and this has less fudge-days (at most two).
- dalke 11y agoThe International Fixed Calendar - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Fixed_Calendar https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Fixed_Calendar . > The calendar year has 13 months with 28 days each, divided into exactly 4 weeks (13 × 28 = 364). An extra day added as a holiday at the end of the year (December 29), sometimes called "Year Day", does not belong to any week and brings the total to 365 days. ... > International Fixed Calendar inserts the extra day in leap year as June 29 - between Saturday June 28 and Sunday Sol 1. Kodak used it for years. I recall that it helped with business operations because it was easier to compare costs and production between the months.