Falsehoods programmers believe about time

Re:Falsehoods programmers believe about time by runarberg on Monday August 22, 2022 @08:45PM (#32559223)

The Icelandic calendar used to be something like that before the adoption of the Gregorian calendar in the 18th century (Iceland actually skipped the Julian calendar entirely, although I believe the old calendar was actually heavily inspired by the Julian).

All years were 12 months of 30 days plus 4 extra days of summer (Sumarauki in Icelandic), making the year exactly 52 weeks. Leap years had one extra week added to sumarauki making it a total of 11 days and leap years exactly 53 weeks. This has the benefits that each month starts on the same day of the week (e.g. the first day of the first summer month (Harpa) is still celebrated in Iceland and always lands on Thursday).

https://time-meddler.co.uk/the-old-icelandic-calendar/

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Re:Falsehoods programmers believe about time by bee_rider on Monday August 22, 2022 @09:39PM (#32559560)

I'm certainly romanticizing the whole thing but given,

> There is no special numbering of the years used in the Icelandic calendar, so the year may be omitted or the current Gregorian year used.

It is hard not to imagine a day in Sumarauki as being sort of magically timeless.

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Re:Falsehoods programmers believe about time by runarberg on Monday August 22, 2022 @10:31PM (#32559898)

Given that the month after Sumarauki is named Heyannir which literally means busy season during haying, which I’ve heard from farmers is their busiest time of the year, perhaps you are right.

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