Or we could do metric time

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

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.

France tried such calendar in 1789 and 1871. We lost it when Jules Ferry executed all the communalists in Paris. Some people in France still use those calendars to show their support to revolutionary ideas

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.

We should make the days 28 hours long as well while we're at it.

28*13=364

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

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?

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.

I do not want my birthday to fall on the same day of the week each year!

Can we do something about October being the 10th month of the year. It's stupid and annoying.

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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!

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.

Can we start the 1st on Sunday though so every month has a Friday the 13th?

Ah yes, decimalized time. An idea so bad even the French said no, just no after trying it.

You left out one day 28x13 is 364 The alignment to the weekdays is only right every seventh year. Every sixth of you account for leap years.

I like it.

But mostly because of all the furor it’ll cause.

Just make inconvenient days holidays, few will complain.

i'm intrigued, but leap days would fuck it up though

We cant ever change it now because people would complain about the cost of doing so. Like freedom units.

Software developers hearing we're changing the calendar 💀

Don’t forget about Gormanuary

You really think the world could come to an agreement on which day the week should start? Would be really awkward if a month starts with the second or third day of the week.

International Fixed Calendar? I seem to remember hearing a proposal for the 13th month being called Sol which is kinda cool.

Metric time is TAI

I have genuinely had exactly this conversation with only the names changed. Multiple times.

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

Quarters would be weird for businesses so it would never catch on.

Walter is not as smart as jesse sadly never was

I fully support this if it means I can take that extra 13th month off to relax

Wouldn't it make sense to have the 1st be a Sunday and 28th be a Saturday?