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What is the smallest hill you would die on? (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
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[–] 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

And the icing on the cake? If we had 13 months, essentially every month could have the same number of days, 28.

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    That only gives you 364 daya per year and we need just fractionally less than 365.25. You end up needing an extra day every year, and if we want to keep midnight in the middle of the night, and extra full day every four years (except when we don't). Adding those sorts of bodges onto an otherwise elegant system would be awful to work with.

    Instead, I propose we build giant rocket engines pointing straight up on the equator, and adjust the Earth's orbit until one orbit around the sun takes exactly 364 days.

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  • [–] 13 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    There's an easier solution. Just make New Year's Day it's own thing, not attached to any month. Then every 4 years, you'd have 2 New Year's Days. Or something.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago

    I have been extolling the virtues of this for years.

    A global day off on NYD and every four years two days off. Really nice!

    23:59 28/13/xxxx -> 00:00 NYD -> 23:59 NYD -> 00:00 01/01/xxx(x+1)
    or 23:59 28/13/xxxx -> 00:00 NYD -> 23:59 NYD -> 00:00 ENYD -> 23:59 ENYD -> 00:00 01/01/xxx(x+1)

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    I approve of this system. It should make calendars nice and simple for the most part. For example, salaries would be pretty simple since the period wouldn’t fluctuate wildly.

    It’s just that not all things respect global holidays, so calculating energy production, water consumption and other things like that would still have to deal with weird inconsistencies. Regardless, this would still be far superior to our current train wreck of a calendar.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Best of all, that funny fraction isn’t even constant. The earth is a bit wonky.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    We fix it with rockets. Circularize the orbit and set it to an integer number of days that's divisible by 28.

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