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I've been using an independent calendar for my own records for over a decade now - it's the day-of-year, written base 7. It fits in with weeks; if we reset wee
by tylerneylon 15y ago
I've been using an independent calendar for my own records for over a decade now - it's the day-of-year, written base 7. It fits in with weeks; if we reset weeks every year (why not? we do worse things already with leap days and seconds) then dates become equivalent with weekdays. One number expresses the day-of-year, day-of-week, week-of-year, and month-of-year, using a 49-day month.
http://tylerneylon.com/b/archives/122 http://tylerneylon.com/b/archives/122
I don't really expect many other people to use this, despite being a better designed system. I think hardcore math/cs people would like it, though. I've written some small pieces of code that work with this system, if anyone's interested.
- graywh 15y agoIf everything is a 0-based index (e.g. first day being 0), why aren't the years?
- tylerneylon 15y agoThe 7date doesn't say much about how we count years. It's all about how you count days and other sub-year units. You could combine it with any method of counting years that you like. I defaulted to using the year system I'm used to because it's convenient.