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Neat. Some limitations: - It doesn't tell you how many days there are in the month (31/30/28/29). - Working out how to move the frame at the end of the month
by hddqsb 4y ago
Neat. Some limitations:
- It doesn't tell you how many days there are in the month (31/30/28/29).
- Working out how to move the frame at the end of the month isn't very difficult, but it's not trivial either (especially given the previous point).
- Chris2048 4y ago- doesn't allow for different themed cals each year.
- TomK32 4y ago- what do I get my mom for Christmas?
- dwighttk 4y ago- where’s my far side cartoon?
- bradrn 4y ago- doesn’t tell you which day it is
- hddqsb 4y agoIf you mean day-of-the-week, that's easily fixed by adding labels to the movable frame (like the existing red marking which indicates the weekend).
- jhbadger 4y agoDoesn't anyone remember the old poem? Thirty days hath September, April, June and November; All the rest have thirty-one, Excepting February alone. Which only has but twenty-eight days clear And twenty-nine in each leap year.
- LargeWu 4y agoI learned it a bit differently, although the first part about February is a bit clunky: Thirty days hath September, April, June, and November All the rest have thirty-one, except February which has 28 Leap year comes one year in four, and February has one day more.
- hddqsb 4y agoI was taught the knuckle mnemonic, which I really like: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knuckle_mnemonic https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knuckle_mnemonic
- OscarCunningham 4y agoI've always thought that this poem is useless as a mnemonic because a lot of the months have the same number of syllables and rhyme with each other. So remembering the poem is no easier than remembering the months directly.
- hnbad 4y agoI've never heard of it and it seems completely useless unless you're good at rote memorization (in which case you probably wouldn't need it): not only do some months have the same number of syllables and rhyme with each other, but also the order of the months in the poem seems completely arbitrary. The knuckle mnemonic is how I learned it and while it doesn't help with remembering February, it's at least fairly foolproof because it still works if you get directions mixed up.
- Alducer 4y agoto me the point of the poem is that it reminds you that there are 3 classes (30,31,feb) and the rhythm tells how many months are in each class. Remembering 4 booleans for which 4 are the 30 day months is easier than remembering 12 arbitrary integers (unrealistic worst case uncompressed memorisation technique)
- misterben 4y agoThe playground joke was "thirty days hath September; all the rest I can't remember"
- bombcar 4y agoI'm surprised, as a single additional flap/sliding piece of whatever would be able to cover up the "last days" if necessary.