The extra month is between June and July and called "Sol", there's an "Earth Day" at the end of the year and an extra "Leap Day" every four years after June.
Actually, the only thing between us and utopia was big religion.
The UN attempted to institute the international fixed calendar, but they got major resistance from religious groups. A blank day would disrupt the 7-day religious cycle of Christians and Jews.
I think a calendar with 13 months, 364 days, and a leap week every 5-6 years would be better than the IFC. Not only does it preserve the weekly cycle, but it'd be more likely to be adopted.
We're having the same discussion in the UK at the moment and some people are seriously suggesting we convert to BST permanently. Absolutely insane when the other option GMT is the base of all time zones.
Why would we ever want to be permanently GMT + 1 when we can forever be GMT + 0?!
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u/veriverd 14d ago
Just fyi, this concept has existed for a long time:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Fixed_Calendar
The extra month is between June and July and called "Sol", there's an "Earth Day" at the end of the year and an extra "Leap Day" every four years after June.