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Re:Posical, the Positivist Calendar for Python by cyborgx7 on Saturday April 19, 2014 @03:48AM (#7612881)
>There are 365 days in a year (366 on leap years)

Wrong already. I do not understand this obsession to make a year exactly the length of a given number of days. They are both completely unrelated, exept in that they are units of time.

A year should be exactly one time the period of the earth moving around the sun. We just need to agree on a starting point. The day on which that starting point falls would be the last day of that year or the first day of the next (or both). And while I understand the need to group days (not sparate the year) into weeks the concept of month seems completely unnecessary. Just agree on a number of weeks on which pay is given out, rent payed,...

Re:Posical, the Positivist Calendar for Python by thaumasiotes on Saturday April 19, 2014 @03:55AM (#7612893)
> Just agree on a number of weeks on which pay is given out, rent payed,...

You can do this now. In particular, pay is quite frequently handled by the week.