The world nearly adopted a calendar with 13 months of 28 days

Re:The world nearly adopted a calendar with 13 months of 28 ... by Aardwolf on Sunday November 05, 2023 @06:11AM (#38150089)

If making such a change, why not make it even simpler: use year + day number in year. e.g. today is 2023 day 309 (or day 308 if more sensible 0-based indexing would be used)

And keep the named 7-day week cycle as-is independently of that, this one has been going for millenia and we need some weekends after all

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Re:The world nearly adopted a calendar with 13 months of 28 ... by stvltvs on Sunday November 05, 2023 @08:01AM (#38150771)

The 7-day cycle is so important to our lives that it's better to have a date notation for human consumption that includes it.

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Re:The world nearly adopted a calendar with 13 months of 28 ... by LandStander on Sunday November 05, 2023 @09:43AM (#38151542)

I know not to hope for it to ever catch on, but my dream date-time format would be:

year/day/hectosecond.second(.millisecond and so on to the desired precision)

The current date-time, to the second, would be 2023/308/342.65

The days, like the years and second-based units, are 0-indexed.

There are 100 seconds in a hectosecond, and normally 864 hectoseconds in a day.

And to go with it, I'd advocate either a "3-on, 2-off", or "6-on, 4-off" work cycle, depending on the nature of the work, or even just personal preference. This way, today(308) would obviously be on a "weekend" either way.

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Re:The world nearly adopted a calendar with 13 months of 28 ... by Aardwolf on Sunday November 05, 2023 @10:17AM (#38151825)

Ideally the beginning of the 2-day and 4-day weekends would be aligned, so both groups can party on a same evening

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Re:The world nearly adopted a calendar with 13 months of 28 ... by taway1237 on Sunday November 05, 2023 @12:43PM (#38153449)

I imagine hectoseconds would be "fun" when dealing with timezones.

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Re:The world nearly adopted a calendar with 13 months of 28 ... by CobaltFire on Sunday November 05, 2023 @09:31AM (#38151442)

This is called the Julian (or Ordinal; I don't think there is a difference) calendar and is in wide use in (at least) parts of the US military for tracking things.

Actually, looking it up now it looks like the usage of the name "Julian" is due to the way the old tracking systems were programmed and used "JDATE" or similar. Nowadays it's just burned in habit that it's called the Julian Date.

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Re:The world nearly adopted a calendar with 13 months of 28 ... by ianburrell on Sunday November 05, 2023 @06:12PM (#38156726)

There is Julian Day that is used in astronomy. It counts days since start of Julian period.

My guess is that the idea of counting days attached the "Julian" name to day number in a year.

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