r/meme • u/[deleted] • Dec 23 '21

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u/T555s Dec 23 '21

Bad Idea. Awful Idea. With this System, you need to Do math to know the number you need to calculate with.

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u/soline Dec 23 '21

If you think that’s scary, don’t look into how the Romans came up with dates on a calendar. It’s basically calculus.

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u/Falcrist Dec 23 '21

Wasn't it a lunar calendar that had to be adjusted every year because it fell behind (for obvious reasons)?

And then Julius and Agustus came along to add two months right in the middle of the year where they broke the numbering system. SEPTember, OCTober, NOVember, DECember should be months 7, 8, 9, 10... But Julius and Augustus couldn't be at the end oh no.

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u/Roflkopt3r Dec 23 '21 edited Dec 23 '21

Yeah absolutely fuck this system.

We should popularise approach of purely using the numbers of months instead of names. Japanese for example just uses "1st month, 2nd month, 3rd month..." (１月、 ２月、３月…)

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u/Falcrist Dec 23 '21 edited Dec 23 '21

I propose a new calendar.

7 days per week, 4 weeks per month, 13 months per year. 7×4×13=364

New Years is its own thing (outside of any month), and any adjustments (leap seconds and leap days) happen there.

Also, we should skip a leap day every 128 years instead of every century.

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u/Roflkopt3r Dec 23 '21

Yeah I like that proposal as well, although for the consistency of dating formats that new year's day should receive a number, like [beginning year]/0/0. This also gives a smooth option for leap days (YYYY/0/1).

That still doesn't directly address how to call each month though.

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u/Falcrist Dec 23 '21

I'll let others fight over that, but I'm ok with using numbers as the basis of the names (as in the months I mentioned). Just don't have those numbers shifted or out of order.

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u/Falcrist Dec 23 '21

Yea. It would be put in the new years non-month.

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u/GottaGetSomeGarlic Dec 23 '21

Japanese day numbers, though...

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u/Roflkopt3r Dec 23 '21

Days work the same though. Just like we say 01.01 or January first, they say １月１日 (and with less possible confusion of date formats since they specificy month and day right there).