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Calendar Reform
Dec. 31st, 2016 01:33 pmThe year is 365 days long, plus a little bit so that we get a 366th day every four years or so. 365 is very close to an actually useful number, 364. Wonderful number, 364. It's divisible by 4, 7 and 13. Which leads me to a pie-in-the-sky idea for calendar reform (it's not my idea, but I like it and want to explain it). We change the number of days in each month as follows:
Each quarter is the same length, and that length is divisible by 7, which means they have exactly 13 weeks. Each quarter should start on a Sunday and end on a Saturday. The first month of every quarter will have a Friday 13th, but since I like Friday 13th, that's a point in it's favour for me.
My birthday would always occur on a Saturday. Yay me!
It's consistent and logical, and easy to teach. That last bit is great for me, since I never really figured out how many days each month had until I learned the knuckle/groove trick well into adulthood. Lord knows the rhyme they tried to teach me as a child didn't make any sense.
That leaves 1.25 days unaccounted for. I propose those dates be day-of-the-week-less. That is, they don't correspond to any day of the week. New Years Day would occur between December 30th and January 1st, making it a three-day weekend. Similarly, Leap Day would occur on the day between June 30th and July 1st. Each day would be on the Solstice - New Years Day because of the symbolism around the sun coming back, Leap Day on the longest day of the year because let's milk that holiday as much as we can.
Anyway, I know this would never happen short of me being named god-emperor of planet Earth. Just a bit of speculation. Plus, I'd probably have bigger things to accomplish if I were god-emperor.
- January 31 (same)
- February 30 (was 28/29)
- March 30 (was 31)
- April 31 (was 30)
- May 30 (was 31)
- June 30 (same)
- July 31 (same)
- August 30 (was 31)
- September 30 (same)
- October 31 (same)
- November 30 (same)
- December 30 (was 31)
Each quarter is the same length, and that length is divisible by 7, which means they have exactly 13 weeks. Each quarter should start on a Sunday and end on a Saturday. The first month of every quarter will have a Friday 13th, but since I like Friday 13th, that's a point in it's favour for me.
My birthday would always occur on a Saturday. Yay me!
It's consistent and logical, and easy to teach. That last bit is great for me, since I never really figured out how many days each month had until I learned the knuckle/groove trick well into adulthood. Lord knows the rhyme they tried to teach me as a child didn't make any sense.
That leaves 1.25 days unaccounted for. I propose those dates be day-of-the-week-less. That is, they don't correspond to any day of the week. New Years Day would occur between December 30th and January 1st, making it a three-day weekend. Similarly, Leap Day would occur on the day between June 30th and July 1st. Each day would be on the Solstice - New Years Day because of the symbolism around the sun coming back, Leap Day on the longest day of the year because let's milk that holiday as much as we can.
Anyway, I know this would never happen short of me being named god-emperor of planet Earth. Just a bit of speculation. Plus, I'd probably have bigger things to accomplish if I were god-emperor.
