13 Months

13 Fridays the 13th

Jason would unionize if he had that many hours of work to do

Yay for The Human Calculator Calendar. Boo for not crediting sources. A missed opportunity to replace Jesse's name with, "Scott."

Double boo for not explaining the extra day every year, not to mention leap year. (364 / 28 = 13.)

Final boo for conflating the real world ~29.5 day imprecise lunar month with the 28 day English common law lunar month.

Yeah but what should we do with the extra 1.25 days?

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Kodak used to operate on this 13 month calendar. When I asked someone who used to work there, she was shocked that I knew about it and said that it was the best thing about working there. The original plan that this calendar is based on called for a liminal day between years for New Year's Day with 2 days for leap years

Every birthday you have, for your entire life, being on a Wednesday.

Sounds great.

How is no one in here talking about the International Fixed Calendar? It was exactly this, and Kodak used it for 60 years. It does work. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Fixed_Calendar

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I don't wanna pay bills for another month

Let’s make each month 73 days.

5 months. We can figure out a season for each one!

And pay less than half as much rent!

See also: Metric time.

10hrs in a day. 100min in a hour. 100 sec in a min.

Except that a lunar cycle is 29.5 days long.

The Jews recognized this and their calendar runs akin to it (https://www.timeanddate.com/date/jewish-leap-year.html), but with 7 "leap months" occurring over the course of 19 years. Of course, then they fuck it up with extra or fewer days to keep certain holidays from falling on certain days of the week. You win some, you lose some.

Fuck it. No-one is this thread can seem to agree, so I'm making a unilateral declaration that from here on out, all units of time except for the second are abolished, and we just use unix time for everything. You have until 1699217619s to make the switch.

Two words: Seasonal regression

I've never been a fan of this idea, it doesn't go far enough and further makes things less symmetric/divisible. I say we use 6-day weeks, 5 weeks per month, 12 months per year, and an inter-calary holiday week of 5-6 days. A six day week means 4 days working, 2 days rest, and that can be staggered more easily/equitably assuming work needs full coverage in a week. We start the new year on the Spring Equinox because it's generally more pleasant.

For bonus points, we switch to base-12 (or dozenal) in our numbering system because after the transition it's a much easier system to deal with as far as division and multiplication is concerned (e.g. 1/4 would be .3 instead of .25, 1/3 is .4 instead of .333..., 1/2 is .6, etc.).

What would we call the 13th month?

* sorry guys, this had apparently been decided already

Smarch of course

I like this one:

Dekatrian Calendar (translated to english)

Calendário Dekatrian (original)

Octember it will be after October. The names will be just as incorrect as they have been for way too long but if anyone wanted the names and order to correspond to their own meaning it would have been fixed by now.

What was the original idea of our calendar? And did every month have 8 weeks or so? Were weeks longer?

Pretty sure this is what the Mayans used.

I adore this shit lol

Huh am I missing something?

13 x 28 = 364 but a year has 365,2425 days

What would we call the 13th month?

And we dont have to worry about the lousy Smarch weather.

Jesse, what the hell are you talking about??

Before we get too crazy, let's consider for a second the importance of 12 in units of measure. It shows up in time: minute, second, length (imperial ft), and I'm sure many other places.

The benefit is it's evenly divisible by 2, 3, and 4. How would we define seasons with 13 months?

Is it true though?

I've definitely thought about this.

Lousy Smarch weather.

lo hicieron asi para que no les hagan la rima, solo es eso

Bro forgot to account for Earth's precession

10 months. Odd months have 37 days, even months have 36.

Good old metric.

Starting the week on a Monday is psych warfare on the working class and pretty fucked up to begin with. Starting it on Sunday was the Church's idea... Start every week for the future of humanity on a Saturday and get your dessert first.

Every leap year would fuck it all up. Next!

I’m on board, but I’m not sure I can use a calendar that doesn’t put Sunday as the first day of the week.