Good start. Now you need a better leap year rule to reduce the calendar drift. Make sure September, October, November, December are now months 7, 8, 9, 10 (because that’s what there names imply) but don’t just rename them or they won’t fit the time of year people expect them to be, then make all months equal and we are almost there 🤣
True, but that would lead to the same mess the Iranian calendar has, that you can’t calculate which year will be a leap year. This leads to fragmentation, lot of custom implementations of algorithms that are more or less accurate for the next hundred years.
it emerged out of the surrealist movement via Alfred Jarry.
For reference his play “Ubu Roi” (Ubu the King) starts with the word “merdre” (often translated at “pshit” or “shitski”) - which after it was uttered in the first performance, caused a 15 minute riot in the theatre.
The purpose, such as it is, is that you can make it “unimaginary” for a leap year etc, or if you need an extra day in a month for whatever reason - and it doesn’t alter the rest of the year.
I still don’t see the benefits. It’s a bit like saying that every Februar (in the Gregorian calendar) had 29 days but sometimes it’s imaginary and sometimes it’s not.
Would you phone calendar show “imaginary days”? Could you schedule meetings on imaginary days? If yes - that would probably be a complete mess, and if not - why even call it “imaginary day” if it’s not a day at all.
Seems a bit like a bandaid that tries to make it more symmetric/pretty. We could expand all months to 32 days in the Gregorian calender and just call some of the days imaginary. That way all months would be the exact same length 🤣
I’m not a fan of base 10. I’m really like the consistency of the metric system but base 10 is/was a mistake and base 6 or 12 would have been way better for everyday use (including clocks) because of the number of prime factors. 6 and 12 are what’s called superior highly composite numbers (SHCN) which make them great choices for bases in a number system because it simplifies a lot of manual everyday calculations, especially divisions.
Looking for a better calendar without arbitrary new year 🤣
https://sac13.net/
Just pick a solstice. Done.
Good start. Now you need a better leap year rule to reduce the calendar drift. Make sure September, October, November, December are now months 7, 8, 9, 10 (because that’s what there names imply) but don’t just rename them or they won’t fit the time of year people expect them to be, then make all months equal and we are almost there 🤣
You don’t need to adjust for calendar drift if you start the year on a soltice.
True, but that would lead to the same mess the Iranian calendar has, that you can’t calculate which year will be a leap year. This leads to fragmentation, lot of custom implementations of algorithms that are more or less accurate for the next hundred years.
I prefer the opposite: The 'Pataphysical calendar
Never heard of that one before. What’s the point of having an imaginary 29th?
it emerged out of the surrealist movement via Alfred Jarry.
For reference his play “Ubu Roi” (Ubu the King) starts with the word “merdre” (often translated at “pshit” or “shitski”) - which after it was uttered in the first performance, caused a 15 minute riot in the theatre.
The purpose, such as it is, is that you can make it “unimaginary” for a leap year etc, or if you need an extra day in a month for whatever reason - and it doesn’t alter the rest of the year.
I still don’t see the benefits. It’s a bit like saying that every Februar (in the Gregorian calendar) had 29 days but sometimes it’s imaginary and sometimes it’s not.
Would you phone calendar show “imaginary days”? Could you schedule meetings on imaginary days? If yes - that would probably be a complete mess, and if not - why even call it “imaginary day” if it’s not a day at all.
Seems a bit like a bandaid that tries to make it more symmetric/pretty. We could expand all months to 32 days in the Gregorian calender and just call some of the days imaginary. That way all months would be the exact same length 🤣
there are no benefits really. it was part of the surrealists who were doing things to be provocative
Combine that with https://metric-time.com/
That could work. I especially like that it doesn’t start over again like the 12 hour clock.
I’m not a fan of base 10. I’m really like the consistency of the metric system but base 10 is/was a mistake and base 6 or 12 would have been way better for everyday use (including clocks) because of the number of prime factors. 6 and 12 are what’s called superior highly composite numbers (SHCN) which make them great choices for bases in a number system because it simplifies a lot of manual everyday calculations, especially divisions.
And fix the prefixes Sept, Oct., and Dec to align with the months while you’re at it.
You should take a look 🤣 did that, or better said that’s a side effect of starting with march.
Oh yeah. Didn’t notice the “starting in March” part.