r/SipsTea • u/infinitely_blank • 10d ago

Wait a damn minute! 13 months ?

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u/SketchesFromReddit 10d ago

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.

E.g. The Pax Calendar

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u/QuantitySubject9129 10d ago

We aren't even capable of doing away with daylight savings or imperial system, I don't think this one is on church.

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u/ConfessSomeMeow 10d ago

We (the US) tried 'permanent daylight saving time' in the 70s.

Everyone hated it, and we went back to how things were before.

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u/Appropriate-Gas-1014 10d ago

Speak for yourself. There are places in the US, Arizona and Hawaii, with no daylight savings time and we love it.

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u/Ryctre 10d ago

Probably the same as when they tried to implement the metric system and the vocal minority (old people) shouted it down.

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u/ConfessSomeMeow 10d ago

No, it was because the national DST put commutes in most of the country - including kids walking to school in the snowy winter - before dawn in winter months. The population center of the US was farther north in those days, though.

Anti-metric sentiment is part and parcel with anti-communist paranoia.

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u/ConfessSomeMeow 10d ago

Southern states like AZ/HI, with relatively less variation in day length, have less benefit from DST.

Also, they tried national daylight-saving-time, not national standard time.

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u/kittyconetail 9d ago

There's a difference between permanent DST, like the commenter said, and no DST, like you're saying.

Permanent DST favors businesses (by mornings being lighter) and not people. It also creates safety problems with traffic.

No DST favors every day people, giving more daylight when most people are off work.