Happy Leap Day, everyone!
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And a Monday!! :(
ReplyDeleteLike all Mondays, but more so, this one shouldn't even exist.
ReplyDeleteSteve S Oh, yes it should!
ReplyDeleteEric Mintz All Mondays are unnatural, but a date that shows up once every four years (more or less) is evil.
ReplyDeleteBrian Holt Hawthorne I know Steve S and can (and do) vouch for his intelligence.
ReplyDeleteEric Mintz He's attacking me over a comment on another thread. Ignore it.
ReplyDeleteSteve S but you are smart!
ReplyDeleteEric Mintz I'm not stupid, no, but his attack wasn't really about my intelligence. He was just being childish because I called him out on an error elsewhere.
ReplyDeleteAt least there's a reality about Leap year for keeping the calendar aligned to the motion of the planet. Unlike Daylight Savings Time, there is a point to this vile and wicked day (as Steve S so rightly put it. ;))
ReplyDeleteMarcus H. Steve S but ... wicked? How can a day be wicked?
ReplyDeleteSteve S I'm glad you admit that that comment was an attack. I just copied and pasted what you had said to me.
ReplyDeleteGuys, please take your tiff (as in argument, not image format) private. Thanks.
ReplyDeleteEric Mintz All Mondays are wicked. Excess ones, like that one, are especially so.
ReplyDelete2/29/20 is a Saturday. Better?
ReplyDeleteCraig Froehle No. Saturdays represent death.
ReplyDeleteCraig Froehle For me it's better, yeah. Mondays are just intrinsically evil. Now if only whenever the Leap Year happened, the day would just be a 'bonus' day so in 2020 as you point out, we'd get a three day weekend. ;)
ReplyDeleteI need to dig up the post where I describe my "metric calendar"...you all would be amused, I suspect.
ReplyDeleteJRR Tolkien invented a good one for The Lord of the Rings. It has 12 months of 28 days each, with holidays scattered here and there (and not belonging to any month) to make up the difference. He even had a leap day.
ReplyDeleteEric Mintz I prefer a calendar with 19 spans of 19 days, with 4 more days at the changing of seasons.
ReplyDeleteSteve S I like the primality. You'll need a leap day, of course.
ReplyDeleteSteve S I much prefer a 13 month calendar with 28 days each and one extra day somewhere, plus the leap time. If I could really do it 'right', I'd also want to change the time structure to something a LOT more rational: 20 hours a day, 100 minutes per hour, and 100 seconds per minute. Then seconds are identified as the amount of time needed to make that breakdown happen for each day.
ReplyDeleteI feel it's high time we grew up as a globe, recognized that the current minute and hours are built around making sure we don't have a '6:66' time, and that that was cute for the middle ages, but it's time to move well past it.
Eric Mintz Absolutely.
ReplyDeleteMarcus H. As dumb as it sounds, 24/60 makes for easy division by 2, 3, 5, and 10. It has its uses.
ReplyDeleteActually, Tolkien's calendar had 12 months of 30 days each + 5 holidays not in any month and a leap day. Silly me.
ReplyDeleteOK, posted my 10x7 Calendar here: https://plus.google.com/+CraigFroehle/posts/ZCvBcPp5ddb?hl=en
ReplyDeleteSteve S I'm sure it does, but it would rather drastically simplifying coding if the libraries to handle time/date stuff didn't need to fuck around with the 60/60/24. ;)
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