dishonourableaccount t1_j6inc8w wrote
Reply to comment by 1895red in TIL: Between 800 and 1349 AD, the Colosseum was converted into a residential apartment building by Serath4
If people actually gave a fuck, they'd come up with some new calendar like the French Republican Calendar or in the Year of Our Ford. Instead people lazily renamed it in fear of people getting triggered.
Also, isn't it even more religious to imply the "Common Era" started with the start of the Christian calendar. Didn't think of that, huh?
rxFMS t1_j6jezn9 wrote
i like the idea of a 13 months 28 days per month and jan 1st each year is an uncounted bonus day. that way the date falls on the same day of the week every year. but i dont really "give a fuck"
realjefftaylor t1_j6jfri5 wrote
Sucks if you have like a Wednesday birthday though.
rxFMS t1_j6jhfee wrote
Ya I guess so. But can you imagine the uproar from teachers and govt employees having to take a holiday on a Wednesday and not get a three day weekend with every holiday.
dishonourableaccount t1_j6jhrfe wrote
I really dislike that idea because it ignores the point of weekdays. The goal is 7 days that are on loop, forever. You can go back 7n days for any integer and know that that day was a Monday, just like today is. Really any modified calendar should be independent of the concept of weekdays, and adding an arbitrary non Mon-Sun day defeats the purpose.
rxFMS t1_j6jjkub wrote
Wouldn’t 4 weeks per month contain 20 week days and 8 week end days?
dishonourableaccount t1_j6jn4gf wrote
> jan 1st each year is an uncounted bonus day
This is the problem. There will be drift across years.
Ignore months for a bit. The length of a day is not a perfect multiple of a year.. of course, they're independent phenomena. The fact that a year is approximately 365.24 days means we can roughly correlate them with 3 365 day years and 1 366 day year, with the next exception happening in 2100.
But, even ignoring religious significance, so much regarding employment, planning, and pop culture relies on every 7th day resetting the cycle. There's no reason to construct a "new" calendar that messes up that pattern. If there was to be an alternate calendar, it should just tick upwards independently of the concept of weeks or months. Something like today is "Day 8431" of the 3rd millenium. And use kilodays, hectodays, and decadays. Weird, but so is every other alternate calendar concept. At least this one would make time keeping off-Earth simple.
rxFMS t1_j6jnqau wrote
I appreciate the response.
1895red t1_j6ino3j wrote
Do you think this is some kind of Twitter-esque 'gotcha?'
GeorgeSantosBurner t1_j6ixcf7 wrote
Do you think being pedantic to a bunch of redditors that likely agree with you on religion but are better at choosing fights than AD vs CE is a productive use of your time?
1895red t1_j6iy9lq wrote
The pedantism began when them; they get what they give.
GeorgeSantosBurner t1_j6ka0sr wrote
At the very least, the pretentiousness began with you...
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