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They should have a global holiday to celebrate the people who maintain time/date related code in OS kernels that keeps the world from imploding.

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I like the argument that we should have 12 months that are exactly 30 days long, and then merge whatever is left into a single timeless holiday.

Because of you I have learned the word 'intercalation', and am grateful for it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intercalation_(timekeeping)

There would be 5-6 days without time every years?

I've often dreamed of and revisited this idea. I first started thinking of it seriously when I realized I was paying the same rent in February as in January despite a significantly shorter-than-mean (30.4375) month...!

My ideal year is 12 months, each 5 weeks long, each week 6 days long. At the summer solstice, 3 intercalary days (bank holidays), at the winter solstice, 2 or 3 intercalary days depending on leap year.

Sure thing Charles-Gilbert Romme.

I thought it was 13 months exactly 4 weeks long, which takes us to exactly 364 days

We could call the 13th month "Undecember"

Extracember

Ugh. Lousy Smarch weather!

They're cool people but like it doesn't stop the world from imploding. Most of all of our code is full of trivial bugs and edge cases and most people don't mind too much. Certainly no one cares about leap seconds, they hardly even notice DST or leap days

Lol the Kernel is "easy" it's userspace and distributed systems that are a b*tch

Lol. Exactly!

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