I edited the title because my grammar is terrible
bastards could have at least not fucked up october november and december
I mean, March used to be the first month. Traditionally, New Year used to be a spring holiday. In Ukraine, the original lyrics of the Carol of the Bells sing about the spring beginning
March or April being the first month honestly would make so much more sense
Not for Christmas. Too many equate the holidays with the end of the year celebrating.
Ukraine recently moved it back though to align with the Western New Year celebrations if I recall correctly. More of a “fuck Russia we’re gonna do our own thing” cultural move.
That’s not what we moved. We moved Christian holidays 2 weeks back to align with Gregorian calendar. Because the Orthodox Christians would count it by Julian Calendar (with Christmas on 7th January). But yeah, we did do that to be closer to European countries than to Russia
“But my ego demands I name a month after myself and I’ll be damned if it’s one of those bloody cold months at the end of the year!”
Two different emperors. July is named after Julius Caesar and August is named after Augustus.
Let’s see, if we had 10 months we’d need 5 months of 36 days and 5 of 37 days. Each month is a little over 5 weeks, which is 35 days. Maybe 10 months of 35 days and a special month of 15 days.
(I still prefer 13 months of 28 days with 1 extra day, but superstitious people don’t like 13.)(I also like my personal idea of 6 day weeks with 4 days working and 2 days off. That leaves 1 odd week of 5 days.)
Alright, hear me out. We go with the 10 months of 35 days and a special month of 15 days, but the 15 days is just one giant celebration. Just 15 days of nothing but arts and crafts and hanging out with friends.
If we are making up calendars why don’t we have 13 months of 28 days leading to 364 days. This means every month has 4 weeks of 7 days and an extra day a year which we can make a celebration day that doesn’t land on a day of the week. So every year every day lands on the same day of the week and an extra day (or two on leap years) that aren’t part of the typical week
So every year every day lands on the same day of the week and an extra da
Can you imagine never getting your birthday off?
Children may have the closest weekend assigned as birth date
Like in East Asia where people technically change their age all at the same date: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_Asian_age_reckoning
A lot of devs can’t even handle timezones right, I wouldn’t trust us with calendar migration either
Obligatory Tom Scott video.
I’ve been saying this exact thing for years, but good luck selling the idea to people who are either superstitious idiots, hate prime numbers, or both. “Oh noes, we can’t divide 13 into halves and quarters whatever shall we do?” Might as well keep using the stupid thing we’ve always used. Never mind that I’m 45 and still haven’t bothered to learn which months have 31 days vs. 30 days. Because I know how to look at a calender/phone.
What about 10 months of 36 days each. Change weeks to 6 days with 2 day weekends. Equinoxes, solstices, new years, and leap years get their own days outside of months and weeks.
Our calendar still kind of sucks.
It’s off by 6hrs/yr.
The Persian calendar is off by 1sec/yr.
But it’s year zero is about the Prophet Muhammad…
So only Iran and Afghanistan use it.
Humans sure are strange. Mathematical astronomical geniuses but still stupid enough to believe in superstitious fairy tales they call religion. But perhaps that’s part of the (evil) genius too. The people who create religions are the ones who know how to psychologically control the masses.
It looks like the Iranian calendar would have each year of a different length, since
The Iranian New Year begins at the midnight nearest to the instant of the northern spring equinox, as determined by astronomic calculations for the meridian (52.5°E)
This would make this kind of calendar extremely complicated to handle especially when not using computers
The ancient Roman is what?
