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Ultraviolet@lemmy.world 10 months agoIt’s an incomplete explanation. You have New Year’s Day as an intercalary day, essentially January 0th creating a 3 day weekend. It’s either considered a Saturday or not assigned a day of the week at all. Leap days are either immediately after or inserted as June 0th the same way.
reverendsteveii@lemm.ee 10 months ago
so it’s still full of arbitrary bullshit? “we’ll just have a day that doesn’t count every year and another day that doesn’t count every 4 years except when the year is divisible by 100”.
the idea here is that this system is more intuitive than our own, but it’s not.
Ultraviolet@lemmy.world 10 months ago
No system can avoid arbitrary bullshit because the earth doesn’t go around the sun in an amount of time that’s an exact multiple of the time it takes to rotate.
reverendsteveii@lemm.ee 10 months ago
Sounds like why fuck with it then. There’s a cost to converting that will be paid only to replace one set of arbitrary bullshit with another set of arbitrary bullshit. You can say you prefer one bullshit to another and no one can dispute you on that, but in the end it’s just one set of bullshit vs another and I’m already committed to the current one.
Ultraviolet@lemmy.world 10 months ago
It’s probably too difficult to implement now because of computers being entrenched in the existing system. If we were going to implement it, it would have been 100 years ago.
_Mantissa@lemmy.world 10 months ago
There are pros and cons to every alternative calendar. Just as there are pros and cons to the metric system, hybrid cars, and renewable energy. There is a short term cost to switching to better systems and a long term reward. The earlier we switch, the more reward we reap. Not saying that 13 months is the best alternative but the reasoning of systemic changes hinges on being willing to front costs that we know will be worth it in the long run. Our current one is not causing enough issues and it’s upfront cost to switch is too high so we will likely not even seriously consider changing it for a long time. But we can still acknowledge that we should use a better system and that adapting earlier will only benefit us in the long run.
PersnickityPenguin@lemm.ee 10 months ago
The problem is that the earth doesn’t orbit around the sun in a whole # of days. A sidereal year is 365 days, 6 hours, 9 minutes and 10 seconds, or 365.256 days.
Likewise, the moon doesn’t orbit the earth in a perfect whole # of days either. The moon takes 27.3 days.
reverendsteveii@lemm.ee 10 months ago
then, as I said to the last person who pointed this out even though my math implies that I already know it, why this new bullshit instead of the bullshit we’ve already implemented?