Are you tired of calendars changing from year to year? One year, Halloween is on a Saturday, but the next year it's on a Tuesday? Why does that make any sense? Here's a calendar that makes sense: The 10x7 Calendar, where every month is the same and work weeks are only three days long!
I like it! Except for the strange spelling of Woden's Day.
ReplyDeleteM Sinclair Stevens Minor nod given to long-abandoned deities.
ReplyDeleteI work at least 10 hours a day...
ReplyDeleteWhat will they call leap day though because it will mess the whole calendar up every 4th year if it doesn't have its own name.
ReplyDeleteNot that we would ever replace the Gregorian calendar. That technical tweak to the Julian calendar was necessary, but it was only possible because the Pope had the power to decree it. The Gregorian calendar is good enough; we're used to its idiosyncrasies. It would be far too disruptive to consider changing it at this point; we'll go to a new calendar when we all start speaking Esperanto.
ReplyDeleteCraig Froehle It's more than old deities...it's elemental. The same is true in other languages. Like Japanese: 日月火水木金土 (sun, moon, fire, water, tree, metal, earth). The gods, Norse or otherwise, also represented similar elemental forces.
ReplyDeleteInterestingly enough, the Japanese calendar used to have much more interesting names of the month (and various seasons) but when they Westernized it, they ended up just numbering them Month One, Month Two, Month Three...and why not? then it matches the numerical names of years and days of the month.
LeeLee Iscience Fest 16th
ReplyDeleteWhen I get voted in as President of the World, this will be our Calendar.
ReplyDeletehttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tranquility_Calendar
Or.....just get rid of months and use days.
ReplyDeleteToday, March 2, 2016, would instead be 2016:62.
The time right now would be 2016:62:01:33
Leap year would occur on 366,2016 instead of 61,2016
Forget weekends and week days. Work whenever you want and relax whenever you want. Don't have a 3 day weekend. Just take 3 days off.
If you want to work 5 days at a time, go ahead. If you want to work 8 days at a time, who's stopping you?
"Boss, I'm not coming in from 230-232 this year. Okay with you?"
I see you found it. ;)
ReplyDeleteMy son wants a 13-month year with 28-day months, instead.
ReplyDeleteBut Shire-Reckoning achieves the same, and is less irregular.
ReplyDeleteM Sinclair Stevens: In Estonian, four of the seven weekdays are just numbered: First Day, Second Day, Third Day, and Fourth Day, although the spelling is somewhat archaic for all of them. The etymology of Friday ('reede') is opaque but may have once been a reference to Freya, possibly imported through trade with Scandinavia as a ready-formed name of day rather than a deity with a day; Saturday ('laupäev') might have once been either the day of tables, for feasting, (as also suggested by the Finnish name, 'lauantai') or the day of sleeping, and Sunday ('pühapäev') is literally 'holy day', possibly (but not necessarily) due to Christian influence. (Not to be confused with holidays.)
ReplyDeleteOn a related topic, the Finnish calendar has idiosyncratic names for all the months, with none being borrowed from the Old Romans. Most are named for natural events of interest to archaic farmers on the Northern Hemisphere; the possible exception is December ('joulukuu'), the Yule Month.
David Belliveau So you basically want a stardate from Star Trek... I could get behind that.
ReplyDeleteDavid Belliveau Humans crave cyclical schedules, so the weekday/weekend concept can't be done away with.
ReplyDeleteCraig Froehle I like cycles too. But I'd like to have my own cycle and change it whenever I want. 10 on, 6 off seems like a nice way to live.
ReplyDeleteDavid Belliveau Nothing stopping you from doing that. Most of us live cyclical lives, and schoolkids and families benefit from operating on a common, repeating schedule.
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