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> I think the best backwards-compatible calendar that we should adopt is the ISO week date calendar The one where there are years without a new year’s day, and
by Someone 3y ago
> I think the best backwards-compatible calendar that we should adopt is the ISO week date calendar
The one where there are years without a new year’s day, and years with two?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_8601#Week_dates https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_8601#Week_dates
“As a consequence, if 1 January is on a Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday or Thursday, it is in week 01. If 1 January is on a Friday, Saturday or Sunday, it is in week 52 or 53 of the previous year (there is no week 00). 28 December is always in the last week of its year.”
- anon84873628 3y agoWell that calendar has a new year's day, it's 01.1. The problem is mapping it to your legacy calendar holiday, which like everything else is going to vary somewhat year by year.
- notatoad 3y agono, the one where there are years without a january 1, and years with two january 1. there's nothing that says january 1 has to be new years, and in some cultures it already isn't. there's also nothing that says you can't continue celebrating january 1 as the new year, while using a week-day calendar for all official purposes. a new calendar not mapping cleanly to the current months hardly seems like a valid criticism of a calendar that intentionally doesn't map to the current months.