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Or we could do metric time (files.catbox.moe)
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[–] [email protected] 25 points 4 months ago (3 children)

This meme already ignores the fact that it's only produced a calendar of 364 days.

Most proposed versions I've seen of this calendar have New Year's Day as a standalone holiday, so the leap day presumably tacks on to that every 4 years?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

Currently, everyone in the world agrees about the days of the week (correct me if I'm wrong). If it's Monday in France it's Monday in Finland, besides a few hours due to timezones. But if a particular society adopts this system you describe, or any system under which every year starts on a particular day of the week and is solar aligned, that necessitates having an incomplete week and losing that sync with the entire rest of the world.

A possible solution is to only use leap weeks. So every year has 364 days, but every 6 years or so (spare me the exact calculation) you track on a leap week to realign with the solar cycle. This is similar to the leap month in the Hebrew calendar - months follow the moon so a leap month is the smallest unit possible to tweak the length of a year.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

You're wrong. For example: some of the country of Kiribati (UTC +14) will never be in the same day of the week as Hawaii (UTC -10).

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

Right, I forgot about that edge case... But at least they agree about a particular date's day of the week, don't they? And they're consistently one day off. This proposed system would be inconsistently off, sometimes in sync and sometimes 3 days off.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

true I've heard about that, sure why not

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Leap years aren't every four years though, just FYI.