We need to revturn to the pre-Republic Roman system of ten 28 day months and a liminal, unaccountable 90ish day period during the winter where dates don't exist. We need to have a high priest pulling apart bird guts to tell us when in March we can start counting days again. We need a system so subjective and variable that you occasionally need a 500 day year to reset everything either becuase of compounding error or because the priest in charge got murdered and no one replaced him for two months.
And we should implement yearly counts based on how long the current dynasty keeps power. We could have Bush 1-4, followed by years Clinton 1-8, followed by Bush 5-12, etc.
I love the republican calendar. For all it's faults it's fun to want to shake things up like that. That and stuff like the DPRK having a different dating system.
I've always assumed that meant you incremented the month (i.e next month on this date) but it turns out some people use an arbitrary day increase and you only find out when it fails.
"A month from now" means look at dates/times that work for you and get back to me. Telling someone "lets meet tomorrow afternoon" doesnt imply a specific time and more than "a month from now" implies a specific day. Your schedules are failing because you haven't been following up so people think you aren't interested.
Just make it into a big holiday that doesn’t take place on any official day of the week, it’s just its own thing existing outside the normal structures of modern life.
Or, we could ignore it and enjoy the confusion as the seasons slowly drift into different months as an effort to hide the increasingly obvious signs of climate change.
If we're gonna do that let's just make it a five day holiday and a 360 day year. 360 is a much more convenient number than 364, you can make it ten 36 day months of four nine day weeks or twelve 30 day months of three ten day weeks.
Or every year, put it between two different months. To be decided by the winner of a contest held on that day. The winner also gets to decide what the next contest will be. In a surprise twist in the year 27 in the new calendar, when the contest day is held after the thirteenth month (Redteaber?), the winner of the contest decides the next year's contest day will be the first day of the next year – tomorrow! Mayhem breaks out and the people wish they'd listened to WithoutFurtherRelay when they had the chance.
One intercalary (or "blank") day every year, and an extra one every 4th year - except every 20th 4th year - except every 4th 20th 4th year. Leap years but sensical.
13 months of 28 days with 1-2 intercalary days is the perfect system. The only downside is nobody wants it because it would be a little bit of work to implement. Remember Y2K?
This is why we need to bring Gaddafi back from the dead and put his brain inside a giant robot. If anyone had the will and means to get this implemented, it would be Mega Mecha Gadaffi.