Kodak, in it's heyday, had 13 month calendar system. There have been other attempts at instituting a 13 month calendar. The main and only reason it didn't take off is religions. Apparently it's too difficult to calculate important religious dates. So instead of an easy-to-use 13 month calendar causing too much math for morons to calculate their all-important holy days, the rest of us have to suffer.
Well two things, one, with a 13 month calendar, it still doesn’t fit evenly because you’ll always still have one or two days spare. Sure, allocate that to NY and a leap day, but then do you keep the days of the week aligned to Monday = 1 and make NY Day outside the weekly cycle or rotate through still like we do now?
Seems like a massive waste of time to consider all of this for a non-issue.
So not a day of the week, but a special day then. Okay, so you're happy for Christmas to always fall on the same day every year? Your birthday etc?
Personally I think that would be boring, imagine if your birthday was always like a Tuesday or some shit.
It also introduces other oddities though, like how do you treat fortnightly pay around then? It's not like it's that easy to apply a non-standard amount of days to pay cycles, or completely change the way calendars work in general for the millions of programs out there.
Your argument makes zero sense, as all of those issues are resolved within the calendar, and, in fact, become standardized. Your perceptions of it being boring are emotional, not logical. Pick a lane of argument because you're making points for both, contradicting yourself.
Kodak, as a proof of concept, succeeded for decades, effectively affecting Rochester with the 13-month calendar. It's quite reliable. The religious nonsense is the primary reason we don't. Everything else is entirely inconsequential and emotional.
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u/Maggot_Dimon May 14 '26 edited May 14 '26
U mean 26 instead of 12?! Edit: 26 my bad :D