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Re:A year should have 13 months by 1970-01-01 on Monday December 04, 2023 @05:47PM (#38524254)
Its not a perfect fit. New Years would arrive at a slightly different time every year, and ignoring the massive software rewrite, we would have issues with things like GPS satellites and other stuff. Its too late.
Re:A year should have 13 months by Zekio on Monday December 04, 2023 @06:13PM (#38524566)
I thought GPS satellites utilized milliseconds since epoch instead of a string date
Re:A year should have 13 months by 1970-01-01 on Monday December 04, 2023 @06:16PM (#38524594)
It's not the GPS spec, it's the EPROM flying through space that now needs upgrades to sync itself.
Re:A year should have 13 months by Zekio on Monday December 04, 2023 @06:21PM (#38524642)
why would it be relevant for the GPS to switch calendar we have converters between the various current ones, afaik to switch to a 13 month calendar we would only need to software updates for dirt side devices
Re:A year should have 13 months by 1970-01-01 on Monday December 04, 2023 @06:39PM (#38524855)
Satellite has an OS. OS needs to know and log things. 2028-13-13 does not compute, and all time would require a translation layer. This layer needs to work in hardware, because space is hard and when things break it can't be rebuilt. So each sat could have a hardware box on the ground, making new timestamps from old, but it would just be easier to run with the current calendar until we become a true space civilization.
Re:A year should have 13 months by cloths on Monday December 04, 2023 @06:07PM (#38524496)
We can kick off this new calendar and gradually migrated over :), some cultures around the world already use multiple calendars, their traditional ones (Lunar calendar, Indian calendar etc) and Gregorian Calendar.

I am also thinking once we've gone multiplanetary (going to Mars), we might need a new calendar system.

Re:A year should have 13 months by dotcoma on Monday December 04, 2023 @06:32PM (#38524755)
Considering the mess that we feared Y2K would create, I am too scared to think what a change like this could do…
Re:A year should have 13 months by JoeAltmaier on Monday December 04, 2023 @05:45PM (#38524238)
Cute if it were true. But no, that's only 364 days.
Re:A year should have 13 months by greenbit on Monday December 04, 2023 @05:55PM (#38524337)
Could make New Year's Day into one day that belongs to no month, to get to 365, and every four years have an extra New Year's Day to get to 365.25
Re:A year should have 13 months by 082349872349872 on Monday December 04, 2023 @06:37PM (#38524829)
obligatory mention of: https://qntm.org/calendar

More seriously, why even bother with months? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_week_date

Or think long term. No, not just 02023, longer than that; come up with a calendar that syncs up with: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Axial_precession

Re:A year should have 13 months by yinser on Monday December 04, 2023 @10:23PM (#38526727)
I have never received more vitriol from my friends than when I tried to pitch this idea. Anecdotally this is an engineer pipe dream and the public will never go for this, but a smart idea!