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A proposed better calendar that would have made as much sense as converting to the metric system
EDIT: turns out that the idea is not so new ... it was called the "International Fixed Calendar" and it was first proposed in 1902
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Fixed_Calendar
In my country, the week starts on monday
I think weeks start on monday everywhere except for one country..
Yeah, the country that makes all the fking calendar apps that make me go to settings and change the first week day. Every time. God fking why.
Uhh no. India too has Sundays as the first days of the week.
it has always absolutely baffled me that anyone would say the week starts on sunday, sunday is the weekend????
I prefer this America
I prefer this Amerika
I think it's a US thing to start on Sunday 1
God damn right.
As an American, I always thought that was another country's thing. Because we certainly don't start our weeks on Sunday in practice.
Ahhhh forget it then .... junk the proposed calendar system
Unless .............. we start the week on a Tuesday
I hate apps starting on Sunday, but it kinda makes sense to start on sun-day rather than on moon-day.
I don't know if any day makes more sense, it's really a question of habits.
Sunday is often associated to religion because it is church day for christians, that might explain why most country start or end the week on that day. I could imagine that jewish country could prefer using saturday as the first (or last) day of the week.
In my biased french mind, it is weird to break the 'weekend' into two different weeks, it makes sense to me that those two days are at the end of the week.
But then again, really a question of habits
Sun rise probably universally represents the beginning of something while the night represents an end. It would be nice to start with sun day and end with moon day.
This is how I also choose to live
Great if you birthday is always a Saturday!
Not great if your birthday is always a Monday 🙁
I come from Ontario in Canada and I ride a motorcycle. I've had many friends invite me to the famous Friday the 13th motorcycle rally in Port Dover in southern Ontario. In our current calendar system, Friday 13th only occurs rarely, especially during the warm summer months, which is what makes it special.
In the proposed calendar ..... every month has a Friday 13th!!!! They'd have the rally 13 times a year every year!!!
What's stopping us from just switching to this calendar right now? How do I convert my birthday to this calendar? I'll switch this very second
I like the suspense of the current calendar. This one is too square.
Half year = 6 Months 2 Weeks
Quarter year = 3 Months 1 Week
It gets more complicated if you count the days in both systems
In the current system we have ... six months can equal anywhere from 181 to 185 days depending on which day of the year you want to start counting from.
In the proposed calendar system half a year would always equal 182 days
If today is February 15th, what day is it in this new calendar? How do time zones work?
February 15 is the 46th day of the year .... no matter what calendar would be created or adopted ... it would always be the 46th day of the year
Um in the proposed calendar Feb 15 is Day 43 (28 + 15), assuming Month 2 is still called Febuary.
I prefer the way the Hobbits do it: 12 months of 30 days, then 5 (or 6) days straight of winter holiday/new year festivities. But I would totally get behind this calendar in a heartbeat, too.
The idea is even older: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_Republican_calendar
Love this idea. What should the 13th month be named?
The correct month name like all the rest should be.
https://www.omniglot.com/language/numbers/latin.htm
Really though? Uncember just to really stab the heart of every latin linguist out there.
I'm a fan of Nihilary myself. Creating a month from nothing.
1th month, 2th month, 3th month, 4th month, 5th month, 6th month, 7th month, 8th month, 9th, 10th, 11th, 12th, 13th months.
I thought it would be more like .... UNDECEMEBER .... for the Latin Undecim
Anyways ... I propose
- Hangovery
- Canada
- Colduary
- Holy
- Enducation
- Summer
- America
- France
- Startucation
- Germany
- Veterans
- Xmas
- Unlucky
Yeah Undecemeber would confuse too many people though. Hence me shortening to Uncember. Undecim sounds cool though and would still piss people off lol.
Also you have to include multiple languages!
- Cold.
- Not so cold now.
- Damnit hurry up.
- Unlucky
- Why is it summer already?
- Summer
- Still summer
- Stillest summer
- Also unlucky
- Nice for one week
- The snow is coming...
- I swear it's coming...
- Unluckiest also maaaaybe snow.
For someone like me ... I'm Indigenous Canadian ... that is one hell of a username ... lol
Anishinaabe myself cuz.
I'm Ojibway / Cree from northern Ontario .... tan-teh kee-nah? (Where are you from?)
I'm in that weird mix of languages where some people use Anishinabe and some use Nishnawbe but everyone just says Nish ... lol
Ojibwe and a white mutt myself. Wisconsin, haven't touched the rez in probably 20ish years or so. Hit that grew out of it phase as a teen and hadn't been back since. My eagle feather for hitting black belt and my old regalia probably molding away somewhere in my dad's basement.
I was el classico native family of drunks, drugs, and sketch parties. Fun in your late teens and early twenties but gets old quick when your older brother wants to fight constantly then ropes your dad into bad habits too.
My vocab only goes as far as Miigwech and Mukwa. Only recently translated my native name to ojibwe for the first time after I got bugged about speaking to some people about my background since I'm in white folk central. Nothing quite like essentially being a 3rd gen immigrant a short drive away from where we started lol.
Gah .... I phrase that just translates to ... 'hmmmm ok got you' ... Gah
I was just about to log off for the night when I saw your note.
I'm pretty much the same way ... full blooded Ojibway/Cree or Oji-Cree to some ... my parents taught us to speak our language first before we learned English so I'm fluent. Like you I grew up with a ton of classico Native family of drunks, drugs and parties. Saw the signs early on and when I was 20 went into a program and have been clean since for 28 years. And also like you, I haven't seen the rez or much of my family since then. Many of my friends I grew up with went into the red road Pow Wow scene as dancers, drummers and singers but I never went that way ... I'm proud of them and always wished I could do the same but I never had the chance. I'm somewhere in between worlds being an Indian and an Indian living like a white man .. lol ... I'm neither nor am I part of either so it's weird most of the time. I'm not Native enough for my Native family and I'll never be white enough for my wife's white family. It's weird being Indigenous ... it always has been.
Nice to meet you nichi .... it's a short form for nichi-kwesoo (my brother/sibling) .. or nichi-ininew (my fellow Native/my fellow man)
Eh-koo-teh (that is all) ... wachiyeh
Heh, the username makes more sense now. It was nice chatting though. Pretty rare to see a native proper almost anywhere online lol.
Could we please rename the rest as well? Having september, october, november, december as 9, 10, 11 and 12 makes no sense at all.
The naming controversy would probably set off WWIII