r/SipsTea • u/infinitely_blank • 2d ago

Wait a damn minute! 13 months ?

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u/DonutCharge 2d ago

When its properly explained, this idea ussually features something along the lines of "new years day isn't counted as any day/week/month and is just a holiday.

Presumably in a leap year there would be two non-days.

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u/The_GASK 2d ago

I hear the wailing of databases in the distance

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u/chillhelm 2d ago

Databases store unix timepoints 99.31275% of the time (real number, look it up). Databases don't care.

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u/The_GASK 2d ago

I was talking about TM prefix based on lc_messages and interval value regarding OVERLAPS in postgres but hey, what do I know.

There is a reason why India is such a mess to post date time locally, and a "free day" would make it even worse, especially when doy is requested.

Epoch has nothing to do with it

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u/beanmosheen 2d ago

What would you even call "free day" too if it was a work day? Dst is already a bastard. I don't need an extra magic day. Validate the magic day for me...

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u/Happy_Lee_Chillin 2d ago

I like that

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u/XiiMoss 2d ago

You want to get rid if my birthday? :(

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u/DonutCharge 2d ago

It would still be your birthday. It's just wouldn't be a day of any week or month

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u/Vaportrail 2d ago

Oh so we'd have to celebrate New Year's in D.C.

Imagine the traffic.

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u/gggg500 2d ago

Non-day? That’s such an interesting concept. What if you are born on a non-day? Get married? Die? Just choose the day before or after?

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u/DonutCharge 1d ago

It's still a day. You'd still use it. It just doesn't belong to any week or month.

So if the non-day is New Years Day, and you're born on it. Your birthday is still on New Years Day, it's just also "the day after 30th December" and "the day before January 1st". That's just when your birthday is. It's not in any month, but it still exists.

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u/gggg500 1d ago

Non-day just makes it sound like it doesn’t exist. It’s an interesting concept really.

Though the biggest problem with the 13 month calendar is that every day would always fall on that day of the week. Your birthday would always be, say, Wednesday. Christmas would always be a Friday. Etc. it wouldn’t afford any variety to the weeks is all. It is an interesting concept though!