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rxFMS t1_j6jezn9 wrote

Reply to comment by dishonourableaccount in TIL: Between 800 and 1349 AD, the Colosseum was converted into a residential apartment building by Serath4

i like the idea of a 13 months 28 days per month and jan 1st each year is an uncounted bonus day. that way the date falls on the same day of the week every year. but i dont really "give a fuck"

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realjefftaylor t1_j6jfri5 wrote

Sucks if you have like a Wednesday birthday though.

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rxFMS t1_j6jhfee wrote

Ya I guess so. But can you imagine the uproar from teachers and govt employees having to take a holiday on a Wednesday and not get a three day weekend with every holiday.

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dishonourableaccount t1_j6jhrfe wrote

I really dislike that idea because it ignores the point of weekdays. The goal is 7 days that are on loop, forever. You can go back 7n days for any integer and know that that day was a Monday, just like today is. Really any modified calendar should be independent of the concept of weekdays, and adding an arbitrary non Mon-Sun day defeats the purpose.

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rxFMS t1_j6jjkub wrote

Wouldn’t 4 weeks per month contain 20 week days and 8 week end days?

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dishonourableaccount t1_j6jn4gf wrote

> jan 1st each year is an uncounted bonus day

This is the problem. There will be drift across years.

Ignore months for a bit. The length of a day is not a perfect multiple of a year.. of course, they're independent phenomena. The fact that a year is approximately 365.24 days means we can roughly correlate them with 3 365 day years and 1 366 day year, with the next exception happening in 2100.

But, even ignoring religious significance, so much regarding employment, planning, and pop culture relies on every 7th day resetting the cycle. There's no reason to construct a "new" calendar that messes up that pattern. If there was to be an alternate calendar, it should just tick upwards independently of the concept of weeks or months. Something like today is "Day 8431" of the 3rd millenium. And use kilodays, hectodays, and decadays. Weird, but so is every other alternate calendar concept. At least this one would make time keeping off-Earth simple.

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rxFMS t1_j6jnqau wrote

I appreciate the response.

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