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If you are interested in calendar reform and enjoy world history, the French Revolutionary calendar is fascinating to read about.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_Republican_calendar

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I used to use a bastardized version of this on our team calendar on the whiteboard at work (just the month/year, ignoring the fact that French Republican months don't correspond neatly to Gregorian months). I was able to get away with it because the month/year were not really functional parts of the calendar. I doubt I could have gotten the team to fully adopt the French Republican calendar, although it would have been fun to try.

Your next Death March might have lead to a Thermidorian Reaction.

I'm trying to imagine the hacker equivalent of the republican calendar's Wheezy, Sneezy and Freezy; Slippy, Drippy and Nippy; Showery, Flowery and Bowery; Hoppy, Croppy and Poppy. Maybe one season would have months named CacheInvalidation, NamingThings, and OffByOne?

More seriously, what's wrong with Year-Week-Day? (I propose this having been in an industry where I regularly received swag calendars marked with week numbers, YMMV.)

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