Comment on xkcd #2846: Daylight Saving Choice

• BackOnMyBS@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Fine. What’s the term for a calendar that labels every day of the year in sequential order without using any other divisions like months?

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  • Kecessa@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Day of the year calendar, but you could look into the seasonal calendar, the international fixed calendar and ISO week date.

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• lugal@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I’d like to give some context here: the julian calendar is the older one that doesn’t take into account that leap years are more complicated that just every fourth year. It was still a good idea to standardize the calendar. Before that, the months were shorter and the Senate decided were to put arbitrary days to make it fit

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