I do not want my birthday to fall on the same day each year!
Or we could do metric time
Submitted 4 weeks ago by Gork@lemm.ee to science_memes@mander.xyz
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LockheedTheDragon@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
NewAgeOldPerson@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Seems like a high price to pay just to test who cares enough.
ben_dover@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
i’m intrigued, but leap days would fuck it up though
dingus@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Also imagine your birthday always being on a Monday…
Typhoonigator@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
This meme already ignores the fact that it’s only produced a calendar of 364 days.
Most proposed versions I’ve seen of this calendar have New Year’s Day as a standalone holiday, so the leap day presumably tacks on to that every 4 years?
NeatNit@discuss.tchncs.de 4 weeks ago
Currently, everyone in the world agrees and the days of the week (correct me if I’m wrong). If it’s Monday in France it’s Monday in Finland, except a few hours due to timezones. But if a particular society adopts this system, or any system under which every year starts on a particular day of the week and is solar aligned, that necessitates losing that sync with the entire rest of the world.
A possible solution is to only use leap weeks. So every year has 364 days, but every 6 years or so (spare me the exact calculation) you track on a leap week to realign with the solar cycle. This is similar to the leap month in the Hebrew calendar - months follow the moon so a leap month is the smallest unit possible to tweak the length of a year.
Lifter@discuss.tchncs.de 4 weeks ago
Leap years aren’t every four years though, just FYI.
ben_dover@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
true I’ve heard about that, sure why not
mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works 4 weeks ago
This reminds me of a fantasy series I like, where the world still has 365 day, but every month is 30 days long, and the remaining 5 days are separate holidays for the solstices, equinoxes, and new years.
Also, when are we going to do 10hrs/day, 100 min/hr and 100s/min?
BakerBagel@midwest.social 4 weeks ago
Don’t decimalize time, instead dozenalize our numbers! Twelve is such a better building block than ten. Pretty much all math becomes way easier using dozenal numbers instead of decimal ones.
OozingPositron@feddit.cl 4 weeks ago
With base 12 you can actually get a result for 1/3
HubertManne@kbin.social 4 weeks ago
I like this better because if you have to do one holiday outside of the calendar then why not 5 and the equinoxes and solsctices divide it up perfectly. Then everything else is nice and even. I assume weeks were six days long as that is how I always thought of it. 5 six day weeks.
mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works 4 weeks ago
Apparently in the series it’s 6 5-day weeks. They also didn’t have names for the days
zalgotext@sh.itjust.works 4 weeks ago
Also, when are we going to do 10hrs/day, 100 min/hr and 100s/min?
This is how you collectively give the entire scientific community a simultaneous aneurysm. The amount of work needed to convert measurements based on our current seconds/minutes/hours to your “metric” seconds/minutes/hours would be astronomical.
Also, pretty much everyone already agrees on the current system of time, so why change it? It would just create another metric/imperial or F/C divide and cause conversion mistakes.
Gondolaaaa@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
It would add another level to time conversion between timezones
SapphironZA@sh.itjust.works 4 weeks ago
I think we are due another Y2K legacy system replacement global project.
ChairmanMeow@programming.dev 4 weeks ago
The 24h cycle with subdivisions in 60 is easy for dividing them up though. 60 divides by 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 10, 12, 15, 20 and 30.
Sconrad122@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Oh god, converting imperial kHz to metric kHz sounds awful
mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works 4 weeks ago
Mwahahaha!
uis@lemm.ee 4 weeks ago
Metric time is TAI
01011@monero.town 4 weeks ago
Can we do something about October being the 10th month of the year. It’s stupid and annoying.
s_s@lemm.ee 4 weeks ago
Start the year on March 1st like it used to be?
meliante@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
And September (sept=seven), November (nov=nine) and December (dec=ten)…
blindsight@beehaw.org 4 weeks ago
You can thank Julius Augustus for that. He wanted the best months named after himself. Egomaniac.
meliaesc@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Blame the Caesars, Julius for July and Augustus for August.
roscoe@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 weeks ago
That’s a common misconception. For the Romans, the year used to start with March and only have ten months. January and February weren’t even named. Several calendar changes followed over the centuries. Adding two months. Moving the new year to January, which made September-December no longer 7-10. Adding random one off months to realign with the seasons. And a couple different tries at leap days.
mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works 4 weeks ago
Tbf, the calendar before them was even worse
VindictiveJudge@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
I suppose we could fix it by moving the start of the year to March 1st. Start of spring makes more sense for the new year anyway.
Etterra@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
I’ve actual been saying this for years for this exact reason. God forbid we not be able to divide a year into clean quarters.
BigBenis@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Three months and one week still seems like a clean quarter to me.
Alternatively, if we really want to stick to the three-month quarter then we could call the extra week of each quarter an off-week or save it all for the 13th month of the year since nothing really gets done during that time anyway.
The_Mastermind@mander.xyz 4 weeks ago
Walter is not as smart as jesse sadly never was
Anticorp@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
It sounds like you need a rewatch. Jesse has about a quarter of Walt’s intelligence and knowledge, if that.
The_Mastermind@mander.xyz 4 weeks ago
Bruh i was talking about all these memes in which jesse is right and walter doesn’t understand .
bluewing@lemm.ee 4 weeks ago
Ah yes, decimalized time. An idea so bad even the French said no, just no after trying it.
xkforce@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
People being afraid of the number 13 doesnt make it a bad idea.
Typhoonigator@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
I believe they’re referring to the metric time comment, not the calendar change idea.
realitista@lemm.ee 4 weeks ago
28*13=364
cori@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 weeks ago
New years day is always a holiday that doesn’t fall on any other day of the calendar. It’s just kind of its own thing. No idea how that would actually work irl but that is usually how this proposal is explained.
watersnipje@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 weeks ago
As a software engineer, I beg of you
Flax_vert@feddit.uk 4 weeks ago
Wouldn’t it make sense to have the 1st be a Sunday and 28th be a Saturday?
JusticeForPorygon@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Iirc most countries consider Monday the beginning of the week and Sunday the end of the week, hence the term “weekend”
Flax_vert@feddit.uk 4 weeks ago
TIL, in the UK we seem to see Sunday as the first day of the week, but under ISO it’s monday. Interesting.
heleos@lemm.ee 4 weeks ago
I used to think the same, even made fun of friends and family for setting calendars to start on Monday, but then I tried it and found the light
Flax_vert@feddit.uk 4 weeks ago
What’s so important about a visual change 🤣
MalReynolds@slrpnk.net 4 weeks ago
Just make inconvenient days holidays, few will complain.
ThePyroPython@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
But how would the corporate world divide the 13 month year into quarters? Don’t you know what that’ll do to the bottom line?! Think of the poor shareholders! /s
Flax_vert@feddit.uk 4 weeks ago
3 months and one week. Simples!
TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Split it to 3 months as is now, then the remainder is 28 days. 28 is divisible by 4 to leave 7.
Q1 ends 1 week into April, Q2 ends 2 weeks into June, etc.
Philippe23@lemmy.ca 4 weeks ago
Kodak used this calendar for 60 years. The company’s decline started within a decade of abandoning the calendar.
SlopppyEngineer@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
The solution to that is having 12 months of 4 weeks each, and one week of solstice every 3 months. One quarter then is 13 weeks in total. That makes it so each quarter is exactly perfectly matches a season and keeps it all in sync with solar time. In the ideal case you also match the school holidays to the solstice, and the winter solstice includes new year’s day and leap day, making it just a bit longer for Christmas holidays.
Yes, I’ve given this a bit too much thought.
CileTheSane@lemmy.ca 4 weeks ago
I’d put leap day with the Summer Solstice, split up the extra days.
NegativeInf@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
We dine on the rich during month 13.
kameecoding@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
3 months 1 week?
MeDuViNoX@sh.itjust.works 4 weeks ago
Adalast@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
I have genuinely had exactly this conversation with only the names changed. Multiple times.
zaphod@sopuli.xyz 4 weeks ago
You really think the world could come to an agreement on which day the week should start?
HonoraryMancunian@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Imagine if your birthday was always on Monday
Hule@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Strong counterargument there!
Hupf@feddit.de 4 weeks ago
We should make the days 28 hours long as well while we’re at it.
blindsight@beehaw.org 4 weeks ago
What the flying fuck. I literally did that exact thing in university to manage my at-the-time undiagnosed sleep disorder.
I slept through like 30% of my classes, but it was the most rested I’d ever been in my life.
Adalast@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
I actually had this happen once. My mental health actually improved, but it was untenable for my job and social life unfortunately. It was kinda nice for a couple months though.
sukhmel@programming.dev 4 weeks ago
Afaik, the effect depends on if you have unusual circadian rhythm or not
Mubelotix@jlai.lu 4 weeks ago
France tried such calendar in 1789 and 1871. We lost it when Jules Ferry executed all communalists in Paris. Some people in France still use those calendars to show their support to revolutionary ideas
AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
There are a few websites and twitter accounts that remind you that today is Nonidi, 29 Germinal of the year CCXXXII.
Mubelotix@jlai.lu 4 weeks ago
I own such a website and I confirm the date is right. French wikipedia though is wrong as it uses a bad simplication reform that was never voted
brbposting@sh.itjust.works 4 weeks ago
Picking up a newspaper in Thailand reminds you it’s year 2567
The reckoning of the Buddhist Era in Thailand is 543 years ahead of Anno Domini, so the year 2024 AD corresponds to B.E. 2567.
starman2112@sh.itjust.works 4 weeks ago
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belated_frog_pants@beehaw.org 4 weeks ago
We cant ever change it now because people would complain about the cost of doing so. Like freedom units.
bobbytables@feddit.de 4 weeks ago
I hate the idea of metric time (for a lot of use cases metric is still awesome).
12 and 60 can be easily divided by 2, 3, 4, 6. 60 also by 5 and 10. Even for 8 it’s still kind of easy.
For 10 or 100 division is easy for 2, 5 and 10 and okay-ish for 4.
The 12/60 (and 360 degrees of a circle) are such an elegant system!
RegalPotoo@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
As a software dev who has lost weeks of his life dealing with timezones, leap days, daylight savings time, date math and other associated nonsense I fully support this being the way the world is. I don’t want to go through the transition to get there though
MrJameGumb@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
I fully support this if it means I can take that extra 13th month off to relax
cerement@slrpnk.net 4 weeks ago
perennial calendars – specifically leap week calendars (already implemented in the ISO week date calendar) – keeps all the advantages of 28 day months, and the leap week (instead of a leap day) allows for everything to stay lined up and doesn’t interrupt the 7-day week cycle
teft@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Quarters would be weird for businesses so it would never catch on.
silverchase@sh.itjust.works 4 weeks ago
We should divide the year into four suits — one for each season. Each suit is thirteen weeks long, numbered ace to king. Sometimes we have a Joker day.
Zehzin@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Software developer hearing we’re changing the calendar 💀
Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de 4 weeks ago
A lunar day is 27.3 days and a solar cycle is 29 and change. So we’d be just off the lunar cycles. Like when you’re sitting waiting for a turn lane signal to change and the person in front of you has a blinker that’s just a tiny bit slower than yours.
ummthatguy@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
In preparation for the upcoming Bell Riots, WWIII, Eugenics Wars, First Contact, Battle of Wolf 359, and Dominion Wars, I say we stop beating around the bush and adopt the Bajoran 26 hour day.
otacon239@feddit.de 4 weeks ago
Don’t forget about Gormanuary
doubletwist@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Can we start the 1st on Sunday though so every month has a Friday the 13th?
Colonel_Panic_@lemm.ee 4 weeks ago
This is the real discussion piece. We either always have Friday the 13th or we never do again.
I’m with you for always Friday the 13th.
Plus, never having one again just feels wrong.