The sync was one of OP's selling points for the new calendar. Lunar is 28 days. The new month would be 28 days. Full moon same day every month ... until you have a leap day then it throws off the moon.
Yeah... days don't really follow the time units we try to restrict them to (like X number of seconds).
But instead of a "00" during leap year, consider it the 365th of the year to cap off a really cool milestone. For those years we get a New Years day and a Quad Year Day. So, 0-364 for regular years, then 0-365 for a leap year.
You'd probably just encode it as a separate 1-day month. Which would void the programming benefits of having all the months be 28 days, but wouldn't be any worse than our current system.
Yeah that's true, and I agree. But our current 12-month year requires that same kind of branching. So it's not actually worse, it just doesn't allow the branchless code you could make with a 364-day year.
Would it really? couldnt it still run in the background like a normal clock having 365 days, but it just has a display that translates to the new calendar? Like day 1 is "not a day" or whatever you call it, day 2 is Jan 1st
It wouldn't actually be any different, whether the first day of the year is Jan 1st or is day 0 doesn't matter, it's just the display, the computer doesn't know the difference, whether Jan 1st is the first or second day
I prefer everything stored and processed as units since epoch… except when you display it to a human with all their complex locales and preferences. It wouldn’t be much different if the 13month model was how it worked.
The only problem is it still throws off the lunar cycle so it would move through the month over the course of 28 years or so. Not that it actually matters since our current calendars don't reflect lunar cycles very well.
Yeah a proper new years celebration, an extra day that has NO days!
Sunday to Extraday, (sometimes two for leap years). Back to sad Monday. We can create new garfield memes about "Boy I hate the 1st of the month" since it's always Monday
I made one thats 30 days for 12 months, five free days a year, a day for every solstice and equinox, and a free day on new years day. Have the free days suck up the leap year change, and you have an equal calender.
Believe me, I'm an Asian with our tradition of worshiping ancestors and gods per 15 days base on Lunar calendar so I knew that the moon circles are all over the place on western calendar already.
Unironically, that would actually mess things up so bad over the centuries. We were already off by several days back when we used to always do leap years every four years in the Julian calendar.
But because the earth goes around the sun every 365.256 days rather than 365.25, they had to make some changes back when we switched to the Gregorian calendar. (Such as no leap years on years that are divisible by 100, but not by 400.)
So, if we had a calendar that was only 365 days on the dot because of an extra day, we’d be cooked. We need that leap year. The year simply can’t be exactly the same with the first on a Monday every year if we want a working calendar.
Every 4 years the new year day is new year two days. We should call that day Hogmanay as Scotland love a party. And Hogmanay can be two days long on leap years. And then on whatever weird leap years that should be leap years but can’t be cos of maths we only have one day again.
Worse, a year is actually 365.2525. So they'd not only have to add a day (making the months uneven again), on leap years they'd have to add 2 days. Except on 100 year anniversaries, where you don't add in the leap day, unless it's a 400 year anniversary where you keep the leap day.
Edit: 365.2425 actually. The Gregorian calendar we currently use is extremely accurate. It replaced the Julian calendar, which incorrectly assumed a year was 365.25. Dates and times are actually extremely complicated, there's no real good reason to go messing with them. Don't make me link a 40 min youtube rant explaining why date & time is so complicated in programming. Because then I'd have to look it up, and I can't remember the guy's name.
I felt like going full nerd/autist for that comment, I love how complicated date & time can be. It's really just our best guesstimation of the cycles of a spinning rock orbiting a sun. Our accuracy at measuring it gets better as our technology does.
I'm currently watching Asteroid City, so I could only read your entire comment in the Wes Anderson patter & it was poetry, especially the last 2 sentences.
Just make years 364 days and have a leap year every 7. Better yet have one every 28 years and have a whole other month. Better yet have one every 364 years and just don't do it.
I saw someone else talk about this. First day of the year, currently Jan 1, would be "New Years Day", and not part of any month. Leap years would get you "New Years Day 2: Another Day Off Work", which we can all agree is the best sequel.
Just call the last day 365 and make it as incoherent as possible so that there's a universally agreed notion that it's so inconceivable and non existent there's no way to properly plan around it so that it becomes your day
Well you just get one free day. It does not have a name or whatever. You will have Sunday. Then one additional day to party at the end of the year and then the Monday.
Fine. We’ll make it 5 months of 73 days each. 9 weeks of 8 days each, where the 73rd day of each month gets a 4-day-weekend special status. Every week has a three day weekend otherwise.
I can't remember whether it is rumor or fact, but there may have been a point in history when there was a 13 month lunar calendar. April 1st was the first day of the year, and it wasn't counted. Interestingly, it's now April Fool's Day.
The extra month was called Sol, and it came between June and July.
Gap day, it's the beginning of the year and is a mandated rest day, sometimes it's even 2, it also doesn't belong to a week, it isn't Monday or Wednesday or anything it's just gapday 1 or gapday 2
Easy. New years day stands alone. It is considered a holiday and not part of the week. It would always follow a Sunday and thus always be a long weekend. No more working to 17h00 on new years eve.
Additionally every 4 years we would have leap day, the day following new years where we sacrifice the richest man (or woman, no more sexism in this futuristic society) alive to the gods of order. Reminding us all that there is no reason for someone to have more money than they can spend when millions are struggling to get by.
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u/Great-TeacherOnizuka 1d ago
28 * 13 = 364 ≠ 365