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Are the superstitious preventing us from having a logical calendar?

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    Ashley van Gerven
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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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      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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      I'm in. Might as well make the 8-day week an official holiday [geek week] while were at it.


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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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        Mustafa Ismail Mustafa
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        I don't know, bituary sounds too much like obituary :) Mog sounds OK to me :)

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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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          They certainly prevent all other kinds of progress. It took us 8 years to get Stem Cell research approved for sponsorship, and that's in the Information Age! Can we delete DST while we're at it? Just teach people to adjust their alarms, not their clocks.

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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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            Jorgen Andersson
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            It's actually already been done[^]. And they even went a few steps further.

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              It's actually already been done[^]. And they even went a few steps further.

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              Mustafa Ismail Mustafa
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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


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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:

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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 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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                    Ashley van Gerven wrote:

                    except January

                    What about August ?

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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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                      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

                        CP article: SmartPager - a Flickr-style pager control with go-to-page popup layer.

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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:

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                          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.

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                            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...

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                              CP article: SmartPager - a Flickr-style pager control with go-to-page popup layer.

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                              Screw that, we need star-dates. And someone should bring back captain slog. Ive not heard from him since he got demoted to first officer slog.

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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:

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                                How about 90 4-day weeks + 1 5-day week = 365 days. Every second week you could have days 3 & 4 off.

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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?

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                                    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 :)

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                                          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.

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