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And as long as we're discussing "out there" time notations, I'll throw out my support for a calendar system that makes more sense. 12 30-day months with a 5 (o

And as long as we're discussing "out there" time notations, I'll throw out my support for a calendar system that makes more sense. 12 30-day months with a 5 (or 6) day "Holiday Month" at the end. Adjusting the "week" to be 10 days instead of 7. 3 weeks a month, 9 weeks a quarter, 36 weeks a year. Work 7 of the 10 days in a week would be the same as a 5-day work week (2 more days off a year actually).

rolux 13y ago
Maybe, but that ship has sailed. No-one is going to reform this. There are many problems with time (see http://www.quirksmode.org/blog/archives/2009/04/making_time_saf.html http://www.quirksmode.org/blog/archives/2009/04/making_time_...), but the number of hours per day or the number of days per week or month are none of them.
rhizome31 13y ago
What you describe sounds a lot like the French Republican Calendar (linked from the See Also section).
nathos 13y ago
You might be interested in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Fixed_Calendar http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Fixed_Calendar I remember it still being used at Kodak when I was a kid and my father worked there.
Uchikoma 13y ago
I honestly ask why?
- bluedevil2k 13y ago
  Dates would be the same day forever. Financial quarters would be even and easily divided. Never print a new calendar. Etc.
  - anonymouz 13y ago
    Seems like all the complexity and special casing of the time keeping is moved into the "holiday month" at the end. E.g., Which financial quarter does it belong to? Moreover only 5 or 6 out of the 10 weekdays will occur in the holiday month, then you have to reset to "Monday" again to have a fixed date->day mapping.
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kybernetikos 13y ago
That's what I have in my time system UIT (linked earlier). I renamed the days to nullday, unday, duoday, triday, quadday, pentday, hexday, heptday, octday, nonday. One nice feature is that if I tell you that it's 1st Unday today, you can see immediately that it's the 12 day of the year (since 0th Nullday is the first day of the year).
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VLM 13y ago
Perhaps a start would be not naming months after dead early roman emperors

rolux 13y ago

Maybe, but that ship has sailed. No-one is going to reform this. There are many problems with time (see http://www.quirksmode.org/blog/archives/2009/04/making_time_saf.html http://www.quirksmode.org/blog/archives/2009/04/making_time_...), but the number of hours per day or the number of days per week or month are none of them.

rhizome31 13y ago

What you describe sounds a lot like the French Republican Calendar (linked from the See Also section).

nathos 13y ago

You might be interested in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Fixed_Calendar http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Fixed_Calendar I remember it still being used at Kodak when I was a kid and my father worked there.

Uchikoma 13y ago

I honestly ask why?

bluedevil2k 13y ago
Dates would be the same day forever. Financial quarters would be even and easily divided. Never print a new calendar. Etc.
- anonymouz 13y ago
  Seems like all the complexity and special casing of the time keeping is moved into the "holiday month" at the end. E.g., Which financial quarter does it belong to? Moreover only 5 or 6 out of the 10 weekdays will occur in the holiday month, then you have to reset to "Monday" again to have a fixed date->day mapping.

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kybernetikos 13y ago

That's what I have in my time system UIT (linked earlier). I renamed the days to nullday, unday, duoday, triday, quadday, pentday, hexday, heptday, octday, nonday. One nice feature is that if I tell you that it's 1st Unday today, you can see immediately that it's the 12 day of the year (since 0th Nullday is the first day of the year).

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VLM 13y ago

Perhaps a start would be not naming months after dead early roman emperors