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A more simple solution is to have 13 months of exactly 28 days, plus one day for new years day. That's even better because every month is exactly the same numb
by wavephorm 15y ago
A more simple solution is to have 13 months of exactly 28 days, plus one day for new years day. That's even better because every month is exactly the same number of days which means semi-monthly and bi-weekly billing systems are the same thing. And because there's the same number of days anything billed per month can be easily prorated per day, and any billing cycle will match up with every other billing cycle... so basically everything imaginable becomes considerably easier.
The only real problem is coming up with a name for a new 13th month and where to insert it.
- divtxt 15y agoPretty nice! Too bad a non-trivial segment of the population won't be happy with 13. You might as well call the new month Deviluary. :D
- bhrgunatha 15y agoSatanber?
- Quequau 15y agoWell, then they can all hide indoors for the month ala the ancient Incans and the rest of us can create some sort of new sort of month long Saturnalia/Yule/Winter Solstice remix. We could even send a Krampus to go rattle their doors and windows on the appropriate day.
- gnosis 15y agoJust skip 13 and make it the 14th month.
- silon4 15y agoOr the zeroth month.
- mooism2 15y agoThis breaks quarterly cycles.
- beagle3 15y agoIt doesn't. Quarters just become 13 weeks. They'd mostly correspond to existing quarters as well, give or take a couple of days at each end.
- mooism2 15y agoOK, it breaks the assumption that quarters are a whole number of months. 12 is a handy number of months to have in the year. 12 is divisible by 2, 3, 4, and 6. Not by 5, but you can't have everything (unless we had 60 months of 6 or 7 days each... let's not go there). 13 is prime. I think not bothering with months at all would be better than having a 13 month year.
- vacri 15y agoI like New York in weeks 22 to 25, how about you?
- aGHz 15y agoThat sounds ridiculous now but it's actually not that bad when you get used to it. Besides, people would likely still keep the month names to refer roughly (if not even exactly) to periods of the year. The real benefit would be in dropping months from the business and commerce world.
- mooism2 15y agoI prefer late twenties London.
- wavephorm 15y agoI think not bothering with months at all would be better than having a 13 month year. The phases of the moon are 28 days long. So a 13 month calendar also lines up with the lunar cycle. The more you think about it, you wonder how they ever came to the conclusion to use 12 months instead of 13.
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- kellenfujimoto 15y agoAs noted in the article the friction from religious groups wanting to hold the sabbath would be too great, in my estimation. I would love a logical organized calendar like the one you propose though!
- ernesth 15y ago> The only real problem is coming up with a name for a new 13th month and where to insert it. The strange month is called 'Gidouille' and goes from june 15th to july 13th. http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calendrier_pataphysique http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calendrier_pataphysique
- chrisbennet 15y agoTertiary?