Re:A year should have 13 months
by 1970-01-01 on Monday December 04, 2023 @05:47PM
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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 @06:21PM
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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
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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
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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 yinser on Monday December 04, 2023 @10:23PM
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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!
I am also thinking once we've gone multiplanetary (going to Mars), we might need a new calendar system.
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