Could this catch on and make life easier?

[ðºÞæ]

International Fixed Calendar

[Yaella]

Thats mindblowing! I couldn't even imagine this is possible.
Its going to be extremely hard to update computers and other devices for this

[pavlooster]

What about the cycle of the moon? and things like seasons, where farmer and sailor planning their harvest?

[ðºÞæ]

What about the cycle of the moon? and things like seasons, where farmer and sailor planning their harvest?

Another good point, is't the cycle of the moon 28 days?
Season is exactly 13 weeks each, a quarter.
Not sure what a sailor harvests

[Artemis3]

What about the cycle of the moon? and things like seasons, where farmer and sailor planning their harvest?

Another good point, is't the cycle of the moon 28 days?
Season is exactly 13 weeks each, a quarter.
Not sure what a sailor harvests

I can imagine something else with a 28 days cycle...

It would be great and a sign of humanity advancement. But i doubt it when there are countries still refusing to use metric or drop daylight savings among other silliness.

And while not mentioned, it would be of very important for the western world to abandon the roman names of the months, that are actually telling things like "month 8" to the month currently in the 10th position, or some roman emperor/god(es).

This reminds me that the followers of "Zoroastrianism" are divided in 3 or more factions precisely because of the calendar (each faction with their own variant).

Unfortunately a bunch of superstitious fools are so scared of the number 13 they would even omit it from floor numbers or seating positions, imagine their faces from this proposal.

Oh did you know if the Zodiac was updated to current constellation positions, there would be 13 not 12 signs? Not like people care about astrology anymore...

Interestingly the Soviet Union also proposed, 6 and 5 day weeks. There was also the metric clock, but people like their 12...

I would welcome it, but people still like to call months like the Romans did, and don't even question why.

[ðºÞæ]

If i remember right at some stage in the past 2 months where added.
September originating from "Septem" latin for 7
October originating form "Octo" 8 in latin
Novembers origin is "Novem" latins 9
December from the latin 10 "decem"

Yes every month does have a Friday the 13th
Body has a 28 day cycle

There are 13 Zodiac signs, it is just a fact that "Ophiuchus"  is left out to make fit for the 12 months.

Capricorn: Jan 20 – Feb 16
Aquarius: Feb 16 – March 11
Pisces: March 11 – April 18
Aries: April 18 – May 13
Taurus: May 13 – June 21
Gemini: June 21 – July 20
Cancer: July 20 – Aug 10
Leo: Aug 10 – Sept 16
Virgo: Sept 16 – Oct 30
Libra: Oct 30 – Nov 23
Scorpio: Nov 23 – Nov 29
Ophiuchus: Nov 29 – Dec 17
Sagittarius: Dec 17 – Jan 20

[Artemis3]

If i remember right at some stage in the past 2 months where added.
September originating from "Septem" latin for 7
October originating form "Octo" 8 in latin
Novembers origin is "Novem" latins 9
December from the latin 10 "decem"

Yes every month does have a Friday the 13th
Body has a 28 day cycle

There are 13 Zodiac signs, it is just a fact that "Ophiuchus"  is left out to make fit for the 12 months.

Capricorn: Jan 20 – Feb 16
Aquarius: Feb 16 – March 11
Pisces: March 11 – April 18
Aries: April 18 – May 13
Taurus: May 13 – June 21
Gemini: June 21 – July 20
Cancer: July 20 – Aug 10
Leo: Aug 10 – Sept 16
Virgo: Sept 16 – Oct 30
Libra: Oct 30 – Nov 23
Scorpio: Nov 23 – Nov 29
Ophiuchus: Nov 29 – Dec 17
Sagittarius: Dec 17 – Jan 20

Yes you correctly recognized the remaining months. Originally more (maybe all) 10 months were called with numbers, but they started putting deities and later emperors in there. Why, oh why we must use Roman Emperor names for months? At least Asians were smart to stick to numbers, the actual number, ie: month 12, not December which means 10th. Before September (7) was Sextillis (6) and Quintillis (5), but some Emperor decreed themselves more fit than some lousy number.

Here is the Wikipedia article: Legendary 10-month calendar

They don't teach this in school, but they still force kids to learn these nonsensical names for the months. This probably needs language changes, as several western languages are using those ancient roman (non-synced) names for the months.

[BADecker]

Adam month
Eve month
Enoch month
Noah month
Abraham month
Isaac month
Jacob month
Moses month
Samuel month
David month
Isaiah month
Peter and Paul month
Jesus month


Who do we drop if we only want 12?

[hoverdrone]

Popularity is what every person on this earth strives for

[Vod]

Its going to be extremely hard to update computers and other devices for this

Not really hard - just tedious and time consuming. 

We should also move to Base 10 Time while we are changing...

100 seconds in a minute
100 minutes in an hour
10 hours in a day
Just 13,600 bonus seconds

Let's include the US in the change this time.

[ðºÞæ]

Its going to be extremely hard to update computers and other devices for this

Not really hard - just tedious and time consuming. 

We should also move to Base 10 Time while we are changing...

100 seconds in a minute
100 minutes in an hour
10 hours in a day
Just 13,600 bonus seconds

Let's include the US in the change this time.

Unlikely, there is also internet time (beat time) where the day is divided into 1000 "beats" and allover the world its the same time. We meet @345 beats, @500 beats is noon    https://www.timeanddate.com/time/internettime.html


Blockchain time, who knows, maybe on day.

[musta12]

Its going to be extremely hard to update computers and other devices for this

Not really hard - just tedious and time consuming. 

We should also move to Base 10 Time while we are changing...

100 seconds in a minute
100 minutes in an hour
10 hours in a day
Just 13,600 bonus seconds

Let's include the US in the change this time.

What about those devices who aren't connected to internet? Can image how much time It'll take to update them manually?

[Artemis3]

Its going to be extremely hard to update computers and other devices for this

Not really hard - just tedious and time consuming.  

We should also move to Base 10 Time while we are changing...

100 seconds in a minute
100 minutes in an hour
10 hours in a day
Just 13,600 bonus seconds

Let's include the US in the change this time.

This was already tried, its the Decimal time. It didn't catch on.

in the French decimal time system there were 100,000 decimal seconds in the day, so the decimal second was shorter than its counterpart.

No bonus seconds, just smaller seconds

However people mentioning computers should know that internally they do have a Metric time, so changing that into "anything" else is rather simple.

What about those devices who aren't connected to internet? Can image how much time It'll take to update them manually?

Just sync at 000 (ie. 12am).

There is a little python script to show you Swatch's internet time, aptly called swatchtime. I installed it on linux in under 1 beat
At the moment of this writting we are @980 just 20 beats for midnight in Biel...

[CristianOff]

If on the actual calendar my birthday is July 15th, when will my birthday be on this new 13 month calendar?


Also 13 = unlucky number
Friday 13 = unlucky number
There are 13 Friday 13 in a year = unlucky thing
See why this was not adopted yet? Cause even if it makes sense it's unlucky

[ðºÞæ]

If on the actual calendar my birthday is July 15th, when will my birthday be on this new 13 month calendar?


Also 13 = unlucky number
Friday 13 = unlucky number
There are 13 Friday 13 in a year = unlucky thing
See why this was not adopted yet? Cause even if it makes sense it's unlucky

July 15 is the 196th day of the year so depending when you would start such a calendar its 196 days in.
Lets assume January 1 start so it would be the last day on the 7th month.

13 is a unlucky number for some superstitious people just like seeing a black cat and other such outdated nonsense.
4 and 7 are unlucky number in Chinese.  Extremely bad is four, generally, door numbers and car registration numbers do not contain any 4 in china.

Just like a odd numbers is lucky and even unlucky in Russia.

[DragonDance]

there is great benefit in keeping things a bit disproportionate and asymmetrical,

Chaos is a beautiful element of life, trying to streamline everything like a robot is very inhuman and suffocates creativity

[playboy654]

Really like the same day same week on every month and year,so who is going to propose this to all the governments and bring us one more holiday to us.

[PoS]

The week should start on the first, Monday.
The year should finish with the LD (last day of the year)