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Re:The world nearly adopted a calendar with 13 months of 28 ... by Someone on Sunday November 05, 2023 @12:05PM (#38153015)
> I think the best backwards-compatible calendar that we should adopt is the ISO week date calendar

The one where there are years without a new year’s day, and years with two?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_8601#Week_dates

“As a consequence, if 1 January is on a Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday or Thursday, it is in week 01. If 1 January is on a Friday, Saturday or Sunday, it is in week 52 or 53 of the previous year (there is no week 00). 28 December is always in the last week of its year.”

Re:The world nearly adopted a calendar with 13 months of 28 ... by anon84873628 on Sunday November 05, 2023 @06:40PM (#38156961)
Well that calendar has a new year's day, it's 01.1.

The problem is mapping it to your legacy calendar holiday, which like everything else is going to vary somewhat year by year.

Re:The world nearly adopted a calendar with 13 months of 28 ... by notatoad on Sunday November 05, 2023 @07:36PM (#38157363)
no, the one where there are years without a january 1, and years with two january 1. there's nothing that says january 1 has to be new years, and in some cultures it already isn't. there's also nothing that says you can't continue celebrating january 1 as the new year, while using a week-day calendar for all official purposes.

a new calendar not mapping cleanly to the current months hardly seems like a valid criticism of a calendar that intentionally doesn't map to the current months.