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Re:Scientists' proposed calendar synchronizes dates with days by wavephorm on Thursday December 29, 2011 @12:33AM (#3402666)
A more simple solution is to have 13 months of exactly 28 days, plus one day for new years day. That's even better because every month is exactly the same number of days which means semi-monthly and bi-weekly billing systems are the same thing. And because there's the same number of days anything billed per month can be easily prorated per day, and any billing cycle will match up with every other billing cycle... so basically everything imaginable becomes considerably easier.

The only real problem is coming up with a name for a new 13th month and where to insert it.

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Re:Scientists' proposed calendar synchronizes dates with days by divtxt on Thursday December 29, 2011 @12:48AM (#3402696)
Pretty nice! Too bad a non-trivial segment of the population won't be happy with 13. You might as well call the new month Deviluary. :D
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Re:Scientists' proposed calendar synchronizes dates with days by Quequau on Thursday December 29, 2011 @02:42AM (#3402888)
Well, then they can all hide indoors for the month ala the ancient Incans and the rest of us can create some sort of new sort of month long Saturnalia/Yule/Winter Solstice remix.

We could even send a Krampus to go rattle their doors and windows on the appropriate day.

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Re:Scientists' proposed calendar synchronizes dates with days by bhrgunatha on Thursday December 29, 2011 @01:06AM (#3402735)
Satanber?
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Re:Scientists' proposed calendar synchronizes dates with days by gnosis on Thursday December 29, 2011 @12:18PM (#3404324)
Just skip 13 and make it the 14th month.
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Re:Scientists' proposed calendar synchronizes dates with days by silon4 on Sunday January 01, 2012 @01:41PM (#3413500)
Or the zeroth month.
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Re:Scientists' proposed calendar synchronizes dates with days by ernesth on Thursday December 29, 2011 @04:18AM (#3403047)
> The only real problem is coming up with a name for a new 13th month and where to insert it.

The strange month is called 'Gidouille' and goes from june 15th to july 13th. http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calendrier_pataphysique

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Re:Scientists' proposed calendar synchronizes dates with days by mooism2 on Thursday December 29, 2011 @01:36AM (#3402782)
This breaks quarterly cycles.
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Re:Scientists' proposed calendar synchronizes dates with days by beagle3 on Thursday December 29, 2011 @02:58AM (#3402910)
It doesn't. Quarters just become 13 weeks. They'd mostly correspond to existing quarters as well, give or take a couple of days at each end.
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Re:Scientists' proposed calendar synchronizes dates with days by mooism2 on Thursday December 29, 2011 @03:24AM (#3402955)
OK, it breaks the assumption that quarters are a whole number of months.

12 is a handy number of months to have in the year. 12 is divisible by 2, 3, 4, and 6. Not by 5, but you can't have everything (unless we had 60 months of 6 or 7 days each... let's not go there).

13 is prime.

I think not bothering with months at all would be better than having a 13 month year.

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Re:Scientists' proposed calendar synchronizes dates with days by vacri on Thursday December 29, 2011 @05:55AM (#3403232)
I like New York in weeks 22 to 25, how about you?
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Re:Scientists' proposed calendar synchronizes dates with days by aGHz on Thursday December 29, 2011 @09:20AM (#3403711)
That sounds ridiculous now but it's actually not that bad when you get used to it. Besides, people would likely still keep the month names to refer roughly (if not even exactly) to periods of the year. The real benefit would be in dropping months from the business and commerce world.
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Re:Scientists' proposed calendar synchronizes dates with days by mooism2 on Thursday December 29, 2011 @09:09AM (#3403685)
I prefer late twenties London.
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Re:Scientists' proposed calendar synchronizes dates with days by wavephorm on Thursday December 29, 2011 @12:23PM (#3404344) 

  I think not bothering with months at all would be 
  better than having a 13 month year.
The phases of the moon are 28 days long. So a 13 month calendar also lines up with the lunar cycle. The more you think about it, you wonder how they ever came to the conclusion to use 12 months instead of 13.
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Re:Scientists' proposed calendar synchronizes dates with days by mooism2 on Thursday December 29, 2011 @12:53PM (#3404488)
The phases of the moon are about 29½ days long.

(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moon and see the synodic period (quoted to a tenth of a second even though full moon to full moon can vary by about ¼ day either way).)

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Re:Scientists' proposed calendar synchronizes dates with days by chrisbennet on Friday December 30, 2011 @08:12AM (#3407482)
Tertiary?
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