That (13x28+1) would be so much nicer. I’m also a fan of 12x30+5, which keeps the year divisible into quarters and gives an even better 5 day new year’s bonus. It also loses the exactly 4 week months, but eh… Keeps things interesting. Also avoids every month having a Friday the 13th.
My gut says that would introduce a whole lot of inconsistency? It’s to do with the tilt of the axis, not the daily rotation. I don’t think those line up neatly enough.
Apparently they used this inside Kodak until like 1983. I have to imagine some lone hold-out at the end, everyone waiting on them to retire or die so they can all finally do things worse and all I can think is: that’ll be be me someday.
Each month begins on a Sunday, and ends on a Saturday; consequently, every year begins on Sunday. Neither Year Day nor leap day are considered to be part of any week; they are preceded by a Saturday and are followed by a Sunday, making a long weekend.
That sounds both nice and an absolute hassle to try and retrofit all our timekeeping stuff to deal with.
Honestly the current system of time is pretty decent. Base 10 isn’t inherently superior for everything.
However.
The calendar… Awful. Messy. Arbitrary. I feel like we missed the boat when the world didn’t immediately adopt the International Fixed Calendar.
That (13x28+1) would be so much nicer. I’m also a fan of 12x30+5, which keeps the year divisible into quarters and gives an even better 5 day new year’s bonus. It also loses the exactly 4 week months, but eh… Keeps things interesting. Also avoids every month having a Friday the 13th.
Also solstices and equinoxes should be on the 1st of months
My gut says that would introduce a whole lot of inconsistency? It’s to do with the tilt of the axis, not the daily rotation. I don’t think those line up neatly enough.
Apparently they used this inside Kodak until like 1983. I have to imagine some lone hold-out at the end, everyone waiting on them to retire or die so they can all finally do things worse and all I can think is: that’ll be be me someday.
That sounds both nice and an absolute hassle to try and retrofit all our timekeeping stuff to deal with.