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It seems like several companies have adopted something similar without trying to change the months. Take for example Intel's calendar where the manufacturing pr

It seems like several companies have adopted something similar without trying to change the months. Take for example Intel's calendar where the manufacturing process follows a weekly calendar - their dates are represented by a year, a work-week number, and a day number[0]. They even make their suppliers use their calendar. [0]: https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/supplier/resources/misc/documents/workweek-calendar.html https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/supplier/resources/m...

kwhitefoot 4y ago
Doesn't everyone use ISO weeks now?
quercusa 4y ago
Intel's calendar works pretty well for planning. ISO 8601 [0] defines a week-date system but Intel doesn't follow it. There's a Google Calendar setting "Show week numbers" that will show the ISO workweeks in the little month calendar at top left. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_week_date https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_week_date
- mortenjorck 4y ago
  The calendars on MacOS and iOS also have a toggle (under advanced settings) to display week numbers. The low-key success of week-number calendars points to what I think was the big reason the Comté calendar never took off: Months are, unless you're working in a maritime environment, an unnecessary intermediary unit of measure, and for most are only valuable for their legacy cultural references. Redefining them should have been a non-starter. A week-number calendar is great because it's simpler than trying to retrofit a year-month-day structure, yet still allows legacy Gregorian months to be seamlessly overlaid on it. The Intel PDF is a great example of this.
spiderice 4y ago
I don't fully understand the day number part of the linked document. If I want to say July 12th, 2021 in Intels weekly calendar, do I write: 2021-29-12 (29th week of the year, 12th day of the month) Or do I write: 2021-29-02 (29th week of the year, second day of the week) The linked PDF makes it seem like the former. But the latter makes more sense in my head because it doesn't rely on months (which is seemingly the whole point)

kwhitefoot 4y ago

Doesn't everyone use ISO weeks now?

quercusa 4y ago

Intel's calendar works pretty well for planning. ISO 8601 [0] defines a week-date system but Intel doesn't follow it. There's a Google Calendar setting "Show week numbers" that will show the ISO workweeks in the little month calendar at top left. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_week_date https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_week_date

mortenjorck 4y ago
The calendars on MacOS and iOS also have a toggle (under advanced settings) to display week numbers. The low-key success of week-number calendars points to what I think was the big reason the Comté calendar never took off: Months are, unless you're working in a maritime environment, an unnecessary intermediary unit of measure, and for most are only valuable for their legacy cultural references. Redefining them should have been a non-starter. A week-number calendar is great because it's simpler than trying to retrofit a year-month-day structure, yet still allows legacy Gregorian months to be seamlessly overlaid on it. The Intel PDF is a great example of this.

spiderice 4y ago

I don't fully understand the day number part of the linked document. If I want to say July 12th, 2021 in Intels weekly calendar, do I write: 2021-29-12 (29th week of the year, 12th day of the month) Or do I write: 2021-29-02 (29th week of the year, second day of the week) The linked PDF makes it seem like the former. But the latter makes more sense in my head because it doesn't rely on months (which is seemingly the whole point)