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.
“The simple idea of a 13-month perennial calendar has been around since at least the middle of the 18th century. Versions of the idea differ mainly on how the months are named, and the treatment of the extra day in leap year.”
I had no clue. Thanks for letting me know. :)
“not crediting sources”
Anyone that’s able to do math and that takes 30 seconds to look at our calendars can come up with the same reflection, nothing special with the “human calculator”.
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
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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
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!
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But what if we decimalised time?
No. Base 12 and base 60 are significantly better for things that are commonly divided into halves, thirds, fourths and so on.
A “day” is 86400 seconds. Changing the length of a second is a non starter, so you’d end up saying a day doesn’t line up with a day night cycle, or something weird like “a day is 8.64 hours long”, which doesn’t feel better than 24.
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13 Fridays the 13th
Jason would unionize if he had that many hours of work to do
If the first was Monday as he describes, every 12th would be a Friday. There would be exactly zero Fridays on the 13th of any month.
Every 13th would only be Friday if the first was on Sunday.
Oh shit you’re right.
Then I think Jason should look into universal basic income cuz he’s about to be out of his job.
The first should be a Sunday. Then we can align with Stardew Valley time.
Stardew Valley starts on a Monday as well, no?
Every birthday you have, for your entire life, being on a Wednesday.
Sounds great.
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New Year’s Day. The next day is Monday. And every four years there is a second New Year’s Day
LAN party
What would we call the 13th month?
Monthy McMonthface
Since the 12th month is December, a 13th month should obviously be called Undecember (the undec- prefix meaning 11 in Latin).
Better yet, just stick the new month in the middle of the calendar, but don’t rename the months that have numbers in their name. It already worked once (thanks, Romans).
What would we call the 13th month?
* sorry guys, this had apparently been decided already
Eleventer but in latin of course
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.
you can omit the unit now
