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[–] 142 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (5 children)

13 Fridays the 13th

Jason would unionize if he had that many hours of work to do

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  • [–] 83 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    If the first was Monday as he describes, every 12th would be a Friday. There would be exactly zero Fridays on the 13th of any month.

    Every 13th would only be Friday if the first was on Sunday.

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  • [–] 110 points 2 years ago (5 children)

    Yay for The Human Calculator Calendar. Boo for not crediting sources. A missed opportunity to replace Jesse's name with, "Scott."

    Double boo for not explaining the extra day every year, not to mention leap year. (364 / 28 = 13.)

    Final boo for conflating the real world ~29.5 day imprecise lunar month with the 28 day English common law lunar month.

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  • [+] 81 points 2 years ago (28 children)
  • [–] 10 points 2 years ago*

    Have a "liminal day" that serves as New Year's Day, and then every leap year put the extra day as the last day of the leap year after the last month.

    The big trouble is that there isn't a subdivision between the month and the year, 13 is prime, there isn't a whole number division of months that can be used to mark say a fiscal quarter for example.

    So I say instead of a 13th month, split those 4 weeks to be an extra week at the end of every 3rd month, so March, June, September, and December would all have 35 days instead of 28.

    Kinda what Caesar was going for originally too, having the months alternate between 30 and 31 days, but he fucked it up because Romans were superstitious about February for whatever reason.

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    [+] 72 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (23 children)
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    [–] 63 points 2 years ago (13 children)

    Kodak used to operate on this 13 month calendar. When I asked someone who used to work there, she was shocked that I knew about it and said that it was the best thing about working there. The original plan that this calendar is based on called for a liminal day between years for New Year's Day with 2 days for leap years

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    [–] 59 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    How is no one in here talking about the International Fixed Calendar? It was exactly this, and Kodak used it for 60 years. It does work. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Fixed_Calendar

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    [–] 58 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    Every birthday you have, for your entire life, being on a Wednesday.

    Sounds great.

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    [–] 55 points 2 years ago (6 children)

    No no no. Let him talk. He's making sense.

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    [–] 47 points 2 years ago (11 children)

    Well if the 1st is on Sunday then every month would have a Friday 13th.

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    [–] 37 points 2 years ago (9 children)

    I don't wanna pay bills for another month

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    [–] 36 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Let’s make each month 73 days.

    5 months. We can figure out a season for each one!

    And pay less than half as much rent!

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    [–] 34 points 2 years ago (14 children)

    See also: Metric time.

    10hrs in a day. 100min in a hour. 100 sec in a min.

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  • [–] 37 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    Hmn...

    You'd need to redefine the derived SI Units, or take new measurements for newly derived units. Newtons, joules, pascals, hertz, coulombs, watts, volts, ohms, farads, siemens, webers, teslas, henrys, becquerels, grays, sieverts, and katals.

    Also not to mention motion and heat.

    You could say there's a large amount of pressure to not change, or that it's a high "bar"...

    I hope you smiled, because that is one joke I will not be making again.

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    [–] 23 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Except that a lunar cycle is 29.5 days long.

    The Jews recognized this and their calendar runs akin to it (https://www.timeanddate.com/date/jewish-leap-year.html), but with 7 "leap months" occurring over the course of 19 years. Of course, then they fuck it up with extra or fewer days to keep certain holidays from falling on certain days of the week. You win some, you lose some.

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    [–] 22 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Fuck it. No-one is this thread can seem to agree, so I'm making a unilateral declaration that from here on out, all units of time except for the second are abolished, and we just use unix time for everything. You have until 1699217619s to make the switch.

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    [–] 17 points 2 years ago

    Let this mofo cook.

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  • [–] 16 points 2 years ago (11 children)

    Two words: Seasonal regression

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  • [–] 17 points 2 years ago* (4 children)

    13 x 28 = 364

    Make New Years Day it's own thing, not counted in a month (or just make the new 13th month 29 days long), and continue tacking on leap days to the end of February using the currently established rules.

    The length of the year doesn't change and no seasonal regression. It has so many fewer exceptions than our current system that you'd wonder how we ever ended up with a 12 month calendar.

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    [–] 13 points 2 years ago (2 children)
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    [–] 12 points 2 years ago

    I've never been a fan of this idea, it doesn't go far enough and further makes things less symmetric/divisible. I say we use 6-day weeks, 5 weeks per month, 12 months per year, and an inter-calary holiday week of 5-6 days. A six day week means 4 days working, 2 days rest, and that can be staggered more easily/equitably assuming work needs full coverage in a week. We start the new year on the Spring Equinox because it's generally more pleasant.

    For bonus points, we switch to base-12 (or dozenal) in our numbering system because after the transition it's a much easier system to deal with as far as division and multiplication is concerned (e.g. 1/4 would be .3 instead of .25, 1/3 is .4 instead of .333..., 1/2 is .6, etc.).

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  • [–] 11 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (16 children)

    What would we call the 13th month?

    * sorry guys, this had apparently been decided already

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