Are the superstitious preventing us from having a logical calendar?
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When will everyone agree that every month except January having a different number of days than the one before it is counterproductive? I want 13 x 4-week months, with one exceptional 8-day week at the beginning! I'm betting superstition prevented it from ever happening. But it's time to review things. Computers control the world. Programmers control computers. So... what are waiting for! :) Any names? How about Bituary, month of the geek...
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That's cool! We ought to bring it back with some minor modifications...
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That's cool! We ought to bring it back with some minor modifications...
Don't forget to vote if the response was helpful
Sig history "dad" Ishmail-Samuel Mustafa Unix is a Four Letter Word, and Vi is a Two Letter Abbreviation
Mustafa Ismail Mustafa wrote:
We ought to bring it back with some minor modifications...
Such as making it six five day weeks instead of three ten day weeks. :cool:
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When will everyone agree that every month except January having a different number of days than the one before it is counterproductive? I want 13 x 4-week months, with one exceptional 8-day week at the beginning! I'm betting superstition prevented it from ever happening. But it's time to review things. Computers control the world. Programmers control computers. So... what are waiting for! :) Any names? How about Bituary, month of the geek...
"For fifty bucks I'd put my face in their soup and blow." - George Costanza
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That has been around for some time for "time". Biel Mean Time[^]never took of, unfortunatly. People like to stick with the familiar, even if it's not as good as the unknown alternative. Things that are unknown are scary. Every day in a year has a unique number, ranging from 1 to 365. Most logical date-format would be "2008.42" for today. Why give them names in the first place? That makes it only harder to translate a date.. How about Summertime? Are you going to keep that, or do you want to drop it?
I are troll :)
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When will everyone agree that every month except January having a different number of days than the one before it is counterproductive? I want 13 x 4-week months, with one exceptional 8-day week at the beginning! I'm betting superstition prevented it from ever happening. But it's time to review things. Computers control the world. Programmers control computers. So... what are waiting for! :) Any names? How about Bituary, month of the geek...
"For fifty bucks I'd put my face in their soup and blow." - George Costanza
CP article: SmartPager - a Flickr-style pager control with go-to-page popup layer.
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That has been around for some time for "time". Biel Mean Time[^]never took of, unfortunatly. People like to stick with the familiar, even if it's not as good as the unknown alternative. Things that are unknown are scary. Every day in a year has a unique number, ranging from 1 to 365. Most logical date-format would be "2008.42" for today. Why give them names in the first place? That makes it only harder to translate a date.. How about Summertime? Are you going to keep that, or do you want to drop it?
I are troll :)
Eddy Vluggen wrote:
Every day in a year has a unique number, ranging from 1 to 365. Most logical date-format would be "2008.42" for today. Why give them names in the first place? That makes it only harder to translate a date..
...but this should be in hex.
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When will everyone agree that every month except January having a different number of days than the one before it is counterproductive? I want 13 x 4-week months, with one exceptional 8-day week at the beginning! I'm betting superstition prevented it from ever happening. But it's time to review things. Computers control the world. Programmers control computers. So... what are waiting for! :) Any names? How about Bituary, month of the geek...
"For fifty bucks I'd put my face in their soup and blow." - George Costanza
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Ashley van Gerven wrote:
every month except January having a different number of days than the one before
July and August both have 31 days too... :-D
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Mustafa Ismail Mustafa wrote:
We ought to bring it back with some minor modifications...
Such as making it six five day weeks instead of three ten day weeks. :cool:
precisely :cool:
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When will everyone agree that every month except January having a different number of days than the one before it is counterproductive? I want 13 x 4-week months, with one exceptional 8-day week at the beginning! I'm betting superstition prevented it from ever happening. But it's time to review things. Computers control the world. Programmers control computers. So... what are waiting for! :) Any names? How about Bituary, month of the geek...
"For fifty bucks I'd put my face in their soup and blow." - George Costanza
CP article: SmartPager - a Flickr-style pager control with go-to-page popup layer.
Date Math is hard, huh?
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When will everyone agree that every month except January having a different number of days than the one before it is counterproductive? I want 13 x 4-week months, with one exceptional 8-day week at the beginning! I'm betting superstition prevented it from ever happening. But it's time to review things. Computers control the world. Programmers control computers. So... what are waiting for! :) Any names? How about Bituary, month of the geek...
"For fifty bucks I'd put my face in their soup and blow." - George Costanza
CP article: SmartPager - a Flickr-style pager control with go-to-page popup layer.
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Mustafa Ismail Mustafa wrote:
We ought to bring it back with some minor modifications...
Such as making it six five day weeks instead of three ten day weeks. :cool:
How about 90 4-day weeks + 1 5-day week = 365 days. Every second week you could have days 3 & 4 off.
"For fifty bucks I'd put my face in their soup and blow." - George Costanza
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I don't know, bituary sounds too much like obituary :) Mog sounds OK to me :)
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Yeah and having your birthday every year on the 10th of Bituary might lead to endless corny jokes from friends :doh:
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Date Math is hard, huh?
It's illogical conventions I have the issue with, not complex date math :-\
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When will everyone agree that every month except January having a different number of days than the one before it is counterproductive? I want 13 x 4-week months, with one exceptional 8-day week at the beginning! I'm betting superstition prevented it from ever happening. But it's time to review things. Computers control the world. Programmers control computers. So... what are waiting for! :) Any names? How about Bituary, month of the geek...
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Ashley van Gerven wrote:
every month except January having a different number of days than the one before
July and August both have 31 days too... :-D
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July and August
Hmmm never took notice of that :~
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That has been around for some time for "time". Biel Mean Time[^]never took of, unfortunatly. People like to stick with the familiar, even if it's not as good as the unknown alternative. Things that are unknown are scary. Every day in a year has a unique number, ranging from 1 to 365. Most logical date-format would be "2008.42" for today. Why give them names in the first place? That makes it only harder to translate a date.. How about Summertime? Are you going to keep that, or do you want to drop it?
I are troll :)
Eddy Vluggen wrote:
ranging from 1 to 365.
I think we need smaller logical seperarations though for dealing with recurring events / schedules.
Eddy Vluggen wrote:
Summertime
DST I don't see a huge issue with. Two days of the year have different number of hours than usual - no biggie.
"For fifty bucks I'd put my face in their soup and blow." - George Costanza
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Mustafa Ismail Mustafa wrote:
We ought to bring it back with some minor modifications...
Such as making it six five day weeks instead of three ten day weeks. :cool:
Jörgen Andersson wrote:
six five day weeks
That's no good. I'd lose my weekends!
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It's illogical conventions I have the issue with, not complex date math :-\
"For fifty bucks I'd put my face in their soup and blow." - George Costanza
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Illogical would mean there are contradictions within the calendar system, which there are not (at least not obviously). Stupid design is merely inconvenient - and I wouldn't even give the gregorian calendar that label. It is optimized to meet various criteria which are largely in phase - but only largely, not in detail. And where there's difference in details, there's friction. You were asking for a calendar that seemd to be optimized soelly for date math, that's why I was asking ;) It is a similar problem to building software: readable, robust, flexible, fast are slightly independent, largely parallel (i.e. an somethign that improves readability also improves maintainability) - but only up to a point: beyond that, they become antiparallel - improving one will hurt the others. And I think it's that last part where most of the "friction" in making software occurs.
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When will everyone agree that every month except January having a different number of days than the one before it is counterproductive? I want 13 x 4-week months, with one exceptional 8-day week at the beginning! I'm betting superstition prevented it from ever happening. But it's time to review things. Computers control the world. Programmers control computers. So... what are waiting for! :) Any names? How about Bituary, month of the geek...
"For fifty bucks I'd put my face in their soup and blow." - George Costanza
CP article: SmartPager - a Flickr-style pager control with go-to-page popup layer.
You have no idea of the implications do you? How old would anyone be after such a debacle is implemented? Have you ever tried to track back through different calendars in history, all the month changes, etc.? It's a bloody nightmare. Let's see: I was x years from there to there, then y months from then to then, *switch calendars*, z months + n days from then on, divided by w weeks/NewCalendar. Screw it I'm 21 forever. (not really though)
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When will everyone agree that every month except January having a different number of days than the one before it is counterproductive? I want 13 x 4-week months, with one exceptional 8-day week at the beginning! I'm betting superstition prevented it from ever happening. But it's time to review things. Computers control the world. Programmers control computers. So... what are waiting for! :) Any names? How about Bituary, month of the geek...
"For fifty bucks I'd put my face in their soup and blow." - George Costanza
CP article: SmartPager - a Flickr-style pager control with go-to-page popup layer.
"Better the devil you know than the devil you don't know." However, look here: http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/calendarreform/[^]
