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[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

As a software dev who has lost weeks of his life dealing with timezones, leap days, daylight savings time, date math and other associated nonsense I fully support this being the way the world is. I don't want to go through the transition to get there though

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

France tried such calendar in 1789 and 1871. We lost it when Jules Ferry executed all the communalists in Paris. Some people in France still use those calendars to show their support to revolutionary ideas

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

A lunar day is 27.3 days and a solar cycle is 29 and change. So we'd be just off the lunar cycles. Like when you're sitting waiting for a turn lane signal to change and the person in front of you has a blinker that's just a tiny bit slower than yours.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Quarters would be weird for businesses so it would never catch on.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago (1 children)

We could all unionize and just take the first month off, set it in the deepest part of winter, January or so, and just set Christmas to be during that month. Although people might not be thrilled to move Christmas to after New Year's.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 6 months ago

Christmas is already after New Year's in the current calendar year ;)

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Wouldn't it make sense to have the 1st be a Sunday and 28th be a Saturday?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

I used to think the same, even made fun of friends and family for setting calendars to start on Monday, but then I tried it and found the light