Analog to Digital Failure: the Calendar

Here's my number one problem with this approach: It's not obvious right away which day which day of the week a day is since the columns of the days of the week keep rotating. This is an absolutely critical feature for me. Maybe it's just me, but I think it's easier to remember something as "on next Tuesday" than "on the seventeenth".

i did look into reinventing the calendar with socialhelix.

the problems with calendar design don't stop there, for one, time is not metric, it's actually really messy.

did you know that GMT time and UTC time are not second -> second equal?

time varies based on geography, different locations have different rules.

politically - time changes when political will needs it to, so ... the rules can change from year to year.

time varies with history, over time the rules have changed and so, the dates when those rules change must be tracked.

the importance of a calendar item can change drastically based on emotional reasons, physical ones like traffic, or even cost.

events are a very hard thing to quantify.

I like the idea of the Today view in a calendar as an addition to the standard week/month view. I'd like this along with a view of recent history to see my deadlines whizz right past me!

This strikes me as a useful view, but please don't call it a calendar anymore.