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Forebruary, an endless wall calendar
- sarreph 13y agoDelightful concept. However, perhaps you should reconsider the name? Its spelling/pronunciation may be a bit of an anti-hype barrier.
- mayoff 13y agoI think “Forevruary” would be a little better.
- ToastyMallows 13y agoI actually have a keychain just like this, I was always surprised it never caught on as much as it could have because they're extremely useful. http://keychainarchives.com/image/56257326138 http://keychainarchives.com/image/56257326138 EDIT: This keychain is also very old, 70s to early 80s
- ineedtosleep 13y agoGlad someone still knows about those things, and they are indeed useful. My parents have a few of these in their house, although there's are bigger and made for desktops. The OP's is basically a paper version of what my parents had for years.
- princess3000 13y agoYeah that's brilliant, and it looks pretty great. This would probably make the whole thing much more complicated but it'd be nice if the "unused" days were invisible, and I agree that the name is a bit awkward. Beyond that though, awesome.
- jamessb 13y agoThis could be done by printing the calendar on a strip of paper/fabric, then sticking the ends together to make a continuous loop around two vertical rollers. This would also have the effect of making the calendar less wide, so that it took us less wall space, at the cost of making it thicker.
- enc0ded 13y agoCool, but it seems you need to remember how many days are in the current month yes? It always shows a full 31 days.
- davidcollantes 13y agoYes. This will make it confusing.
- ToastyMallows 13y ago30 days hath September...
- bergerjac 13y agoQuick trick to remember: http://img.gawkerassets.com/img/17mch8wncw9zmpng/original.png http://img.gawkerassets.com/img/17mch8wncw9zmpng/original.pn...
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- forinti 13y agoIf we had 13 months, all of them would have exactly 28 days. We would need and extra day in order to complete 365 days, but we could make it a special case (the first day of the year, for instance) not belonging to any month or week. Then all months would be alike, every 1st, 8th, 15th, etc, would be a Sunday, and so on. We would never need a calendar again.
- rlt3 13y agoI don't really know why, but I like the imperfectness of our calendar system now. Stupid stuff like February having only 29 days is pretty funny and those 7 days of December 25th to January 1st is perfect because its an exact week. It would be too boring if every month was the same. Could we have fun stuff like `April Showers Bring may Flowers' if every month was just the same 28 days? I'm sure we could, but everything would be the same and that's boring.
- k-mcgrady 13y agoFebruary has 28 days - 29 in a leap year.
- Roedou 13y agoThirty days has September, April, June, and November; All the rest have thirty-one except February alone which has twenty-eight; Except on every fourth year, when it has 29; Except on years divisible by 100, when it has 28 again; Unless the year is also divisible by 1000, when it's back to 29.
- jeroen 13y agoAlmost, but the last one should be: Unless the year is also divisible by 400, when it's back to 29.
- andrewl 13y agoI grew up with this: Thirty days has September, April, June, and November, All the rest have thirty-one except February, Which has four and twenty-four, 'til leap year gives it one day more.
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- schtev 13y agoOkaaaaaaaaaaaay. What about February, which ends on day 28 or 29?
- bitwize 13y agoThis would be cool as a whiteboard with a sliding frame on it.
- ahmetaltay 13y agoMy Casio Twincept had the same calendar on its LCD. It applied backlight on a selected frame depending on the month. It was possible to see full set of numbers if you look closely. It was something like this: http://www.pmwf.com/Watches/Casio/FirstTwinceptCalendarTwinceptDisplay.jpg http://www.pmwf.com/Watches/Casio/FirstTwinceptCalendarTwinc...
- grecy 13y agoThis looks fantastic, but it doesn't give me any reference as to which month I'm actually looking at.... i.e. I drag the frame so that the 1st is a Saturday, but what month in what year am I looking at? Will the 1st of July 2015 be a Saturday, I have no idea from this.
- ultramundane828 13y agoI have this problem too. Am I supposed to be able to derive a date from the calendar? Am I missing some element on the page? I generally don't have a lot of interest in time, so I don't have whatever relevant knowledge this might require (if any).
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- nicolethenerd 13y agoIt's a wall calendar - it only shows one month at a time - presumably, the current month.
- grecy 13y agoHow do I know how to set the current month, and how do I know how to advance to the next month? It feels like I'm missing something.
- improv32 13y agoOn the first of every month you drag it so that the number 1 lines up with the current day of the week
- afterburner 13y agoOh, so I have to check another calendar/date display device. Right.
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- bcoates 13y agoNot nearly enough ASCII art Snoopy for my taste.
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- snowfox 13y agoIt is cool. But is it useful? The only information it gives is day of week, assuming you already know where to position your slider. It doesn't have holidays and number of days in a month. So if you don't already have a calendar with all the information, you can't use this calendar.
- siglesias 13y agoCool! 2 thoughts: 1) Would be cool if it were a dry erase surface, both for writing the month on it and circling important dates, etc. 2) Many have mentioned the 31 days problem, but that's solved with a magnet of some kind to cover the 31 on months where that day doesn't exist.
- kgermino 13y agoWait, I can't buy this from him?! Anyone know of a place that I can get something similar? Or recommendations on the best was to make one?
- Casseres 13y agoIt seems like this would be a great Kickstarter item. If I wasn't at sea, I would jump on this. It seems like an easy product to get one's feet wet with some manufacturing experience.
- kps 13y agoSearch for a "perpetual calendar" or "eternal calendar". They used to be reasonably common as desk accessories and are still made as promotional items.
- kgermino 13y agoAwesome, thanks!
- vashishthajogi 13y agoI would add small labels for Mon, Tue, ... Sun on the movable frame.
- jaysonelliot 13y agoThis little bit of snark gave me a laugh: "The red stripe highlights the weekend. For the United States, where week starts on Sunday (but it is anyway considered a part of weekend), alternative frames can be produced." Can I just say? Sunday and Saturday are the weekend because they are on each end of the week. If you stack them both up at the back, only Sunday would get to be the weekend. Saturday would just be the day before the end. A line has got two ends.
- afterburner 13y agoI seriously doubt most people think of it like that.
- officemonkey 13y agoThat's exactly how people think of it in the U.S.
- TeMPOraL 13y agoAnd that's exactly opposite of how people in Europe think. So here we go, it's a perfect example of rationalization - how humans can find any amount of reasons why their arbitrary choice is the natural one.
- afterburner 13y agoReally, the "it's both ends of the week" thing? When Americans say "how was your weekend" do they really just mean either Saturday or Sunday? Or do they alternatively say "how were your weekends?", referring to both ends? I suspect the common response to the first is still a list of things you did on both Saturday and Sunday, even in the US.
- ekianjo 13y agoErm, the rational usual understanding is that you refer to "weekend" as a period and not "week ends" in two separate words. Weekend = the end of the week, i.e. Saturday and Sunday. Isn't Sunday called the 7th Day of the Week in the religious tradition? Therefore Saturday should be 6th and Saturday and Sunday are both at the same "end".
- sturmeh 13y agoIt always shows 31 days, you can't write on it without carrying events onto the next months and the weekend can NOT be adjusted with this design. Also I've seen this concept before many times, it certainly isn't a unique one.
- Monk_NT 13y agoI am pretty sure my grandma has a desk calendar that has the same system like this one
- jpttsn 13y ago> United States, where week starts on Sunday > Yury Gagarin goes to the space Gotta love Russian-flavour English.
- joelanman 13y agoVery nice. I had a go at designing some calendars a while back, only they were all pocket-sized: http://www.flickr.com/photos/joelanman/sets/72157594502722552/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/joelanman/sets/7215759450272255...
- keerthiko 13y agoThe comment at the bottom about the US weekend tickled me. I never really thought about it, but holy guacamole, is it weird that Americans have the week starting on a Sunday, and consider it part of the weekend. Why the HECK are calendars printed with Sunday at the front? This doesn't even need any kind of "restructuring of the Gregorian Calendar or adopting a new more sensible one" (as the rest of this thread seems to be all about), just stop printing/displaying calendars in a disjointed, retarded fashion... I'm sure it had some meaningful significance in the past, but really, I doubt anyone will get mad if you started printing the calendar from the Monday on the left, in America too.
- lmm 13y agoSunday has always (FSVO) been the start of the week - it's not an American thing at all (indeed I've found Europeans get more confused when you don't start a week on Sunday). The Sabbath - the seventh day of the week referred to in Genesis - was Saturday, and Jews still celebrate it as such - Christians moved a lot of the way it's treated to Sunday. "Weekend" is just a catchy name; "weekboundary" would be much more cumbersome.
- edoloughlin 13y agoI'm European and I start the week on Monday. I don't think it makes me more confused than I normally am.
- threedaymonk 13y agoAlthough "end", when used for time, usually refers to the chronologically later boundary of a period, there are other senses of the word in which an end can also be a start: a line has two ends, and we say "from end to end", for example. Thus, I don't think it's necessarily contradictory to speak of an end of a week that also comes at the start - and that's without even thinking about the inherently cyclical nature of the week.
- dulob 13y agoI think I have seen this like 15 years ago at my office.