Hacker News Reader

Comment by vivzkestrel | Hacker News Reader

they could have saved everyone a whole lot of trouble by having 13 months with 28 days each, no cross calendar day stuff, no leap year stuff, would be truly the most perfect calendar ever made forever and would simplify working of everything on the planet by a mile

View on HN

Every month would be the same number of days! Every week day would be the same date every year!

And you can have a "year day (or 2 on leap years) at the end to round the calendar out to 365 days.

It makes too much sense, that's why it will never happen. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Fixed_Calendar

Sounds boring. What would we have to talk about on a slow Wednesday morning? :)

Well you cannot really do without leap years, but what you propose looks a lot like the pataphysical calendar: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%27Pataphysics#Pataphysical_ca...

13 months of 29 days. The 29th of each month being imaginary with two exceptions, 1 annual and 1 leap.

Or more seriously, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Fixed_Calendar

and then also remove timezones. Why should everyone have a different number to represent their time depending on the sun's position relative to them. I don't mind, for example, waking up at 2:00 and sleeping at 18:00 if these numbers just happen to match my current sleeping routine.

12 can be divided by 2, 3, and 4.

13 is a prime number.

There's a reason the number 12 comes back to often for these types of things.

And the current calender really isn't that much of a hassle.

Not sure how the fixes the leap year? The Egyptian calendar was also easier, but still drifted: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egyptian_calendar perhaps they could put all the extra days at the end if the year as a holiday. Some years 5 days other years 6 days.

Just let it drift. The climate is changing anyway, a bit of drift will hardly be noticeable in the noise.

What? 13*28=364 So, missing ~1.25 days every year (instead of ~0.25 days each year with a 365 day calendar). How does this solve leap years?

1 or 2 "year day" holidays at the end of the calendar which aren't part of any month

I propose that we just extend "year day" to cover the entire year and leave only a single month called Null. This solves not only leap days but also leap seconds and even timezones: The time in year day isn't part of any month, day, hour, or minute so there's no problem.

And this is supposed to be simpler?

> no leap year stuff

Curious, how would you fix the leap year stuff?

Reply on news.ycombinator.com