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Reminds me of one of my favorite posts from back in 2013: You advocate a ____ approach to calendar reform: https://qntm.org/calendar https://qntm.org/calendar
by discreditable 4y ago
Reminds me of one of my favorite posts from back in 2013: You advocate a ____ approach to calendar reform: https://qntm.org/calendar https://qntm.org/calendar
Specifically (omitting a lot for brevity) :
You advocate a
( ) solar ( ) lunar (x) lunisolar
approach to calendar reform. Your idea will not work. Here is why:
(x) solar years are real and the calendar year needs to sync with them
(x) solar days are real and the calendar day needs to sync with them
(x) the solar year cannot be evenly divided into solar days
(x) having one or two days per year which are part of no month is stupid
(x) your name for the thirteenth month is questionable
(x) the solar year cannot be evenly divided into seven-day weeks
Specifically, your plan fails to account for:
(x) rational hatred for arbitrary change
(x) unpopularity of weird new month and day names
and the following philosophical objections may also apply:
(x) good luck trying to move the Fourth of July
(x) the history of calendar reform is insanely complicated and no amount of further calendar reform can make it simpler
Furthermore, this is what I think about you:
(x) sorry, but I don't think it would work
- twunde 4y agoMy god. I literally had the argument from https://qntm.org/abolish https://qntm.org/abolish during standup.
- jonathankoren 4y agoBe glad La Terreur is over. Today is nonidi 9 Fructidor in the year of the Republic CCXXX, celebrating liquorice, you churlish counter revolutionary! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_Republican_calendar https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_Republican_calendar Twitter bot that tells you day https://twitter.com/sansculotides https://twitter.com/sansculotides
- gerikson 4y agoThe revolutionary calendar is separate from the Terror. In fact, it survived it by quite some time, being abolished by Napoleon in An XII.
- jonathankoren 4y agoI’m pretty sure Robespierre would take offense to the characterizations of the revolutionary calendar. But whatever dude. Don’t lose your head over it.
- charlieyu1 4y agoLunisolar calendar is used by Asians for centuries.
- bombcar 4y ago> having one or two days per year which are part of no month is stupid This is perhaps the weakest of the objections, it has been done and it could be doable, if we wanted it. But nobody really cares.
- elmomle 4y agoIt would be better to make it a special month. Nicer for people born on those days than being born on the Unmonth.
- 867-5309 4y ago>the Unmonth like the Giliacs! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Orville_(season_2)#ep17 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Orville_(season_2)#ep17
- function_seven 4y agoNah. "My birthday transcends your small-minded definition of 'months'. I was born outside of time. I'm above it." Excel would throw a fit, but I propose that numeric date formats handle these unmonthed days as follows: US-en: __/01/1989, GB-en: 01-__-1989, ISOish: 1989-01-__ That Javascript format: Blessed ___ 01 1989 15:42:03 GMT-0800 (Pacific Standard Time)
- fredophile 4y agoWould being born on the unmonth day be any worse than being born on Feb 29?
- powerhour 4y ago7 day weeks is up there, too. I'm sure we could get used to 5 day weeks.
- somat 4y agoa week is just a quarter month... or that is, it should be a quarter month. months as a time unit are several sorts of screwed up. my advise, if you can get away with it, is to never use months in your accounting.