Bamboozlement

"PartyPooper2012" (PartyPooper2012) 03/05/2020 at 10:27 • Filed to: None

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If we didn’t have Feb 29th this year, it would have been Friday already... March 6th!

I say we get rid of leap year. Go for 28 years without leap years. Have one week of Feb 29th off bunched up!

Leap week I call it! 

Cash Rewards > PartyPooper2012 03/05/2020 at 10:31

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30 day months across the board. 5 day mandatory holiday. Leap year makes it a 6 day holiday every 4 years. 

ttyymmnn > PartyPooper2012 03/05/2020 at 10:32

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PartyPooper2012 > Cash Rewards 03/05/2020 at 10:35

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It would be a tease every 4 years. I am saying ... we go for 28 years. Enjoy stability... and then BAM! week off!

Entire world would have to subscribe... Entire world would be off. Everyone would enjoy a week off... you know... 3 times a century

benjrblant > PartyPooper2012 03/05/2020 at 10:37

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Have you heard of the 13mo calendar? I know eastman kodak operated on it for several decades.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Fixed_Calendar

Snuze: Needs another Swede > PartyPooper2012 03/05/2020 at 10:45

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Screw all this nonsense - I saw we go full metric!

10 seconds per minute

10 minutes per hour

10 hours per day

10 days per week

10 weeks per month

10 months per year.

PartyPooper2012 > benjrblant 03/05/2020 at 10:45

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It’s a problem when the only place on earth that adopts new calendar is one company.

uhhh. Boss man? When do we get paid? 13th of SOL!!! Get back to work! 

PartyPooper2012 > Snuze: Needs another Swede 03/05/2020 at 10:49

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OSHA regulation states all workers are entitled to 15 minute break every 4 hours...

By your logic, this would be.... 150 seconds break every 40 minutes?

Snuze: Needs another Swede > PartyPooper2012 03/05/2020 at 11:04

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Sure, why not?

I’m being totally facetious, by the way. This system would make absolutely no sense, with days starting and stop ping arbitrarily and not in accordance with a physical basis (i.e. a complete revolution of the earth). I might actually work it all out and see just how silly it would be.

That said, there is a proposal for decimal time that is somewhat similar to what I proposed, except, it actually makes more sense. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decimal_time

PartyPooper2012 > Snuze: Needs another Swede 03/05/2020 at 11:10

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I see I am not the first to be unhappy with the calendar setup.

If the person who invented the current calendar was a programmer, his program instructions would go something like this:

Yes. It works most of the time, but then one day every 4 years, you have to tap you head and rub your belly to make it work. 

CB > PartyPooper2012 03/05/2020 at 11:18

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It would not have been Friday, though. It still would have been Thursday, just Thursday March 6th instead  of the 5th.

Thomas Donohue > PartyPooper2012 03/05/2020 at 11:40

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I’ve always wondered why leap day didn’t have its own actual day.

Technically, it uses up a day of the week, pushing everything back, except the days of the week.

A true leap day should have it’s own date as well as day of the week.

Eight days that week.

Snuze: Needs another Swede > PartyPooper2012 03/05/2020 at 11:52

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Every 4* years

*Unless the year is divisible by 100**

**But not if it’s also divisible by 400

I actually tried to work out my “ metric” time calendar and it runs into the exact issue I already predicted . If you try to make a “metric year”, you can make “ metric months” (1/10 of a year) but then the “weeks ” and “ days” become nonsense - a “metric week ” in that scenario is just 3.65 days, and a “metric day” would be 0.365 days, or a bit under 9 hours, and it just gets even more messy from there.

CalzoneGolem > Snuze: Needs another Swede 03/05/2020 at 11:55

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I just assumed the length of the items would balloon to make that work. 

PartyPooper2012 > Snuze: Needs another Swede 03/05/2020 at 12:21

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Eh. It works... you work one day, you sleep one day. Work week being 3.65 (weird number... where have I seen it before) days is ok by most people who work

PartyPooper2012 > Thomas Donohue 03/05/2020 at 12:23

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And it’s a mandatory day off! 

PartyPooper2012 > CB 03/05/2020 at 12:25

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I know.... I KNOW!!!

But if I am dreaming, can’t I have my own version of a dream?

So tired! Start day at 1 am. End day at 10 pm... All week this week and last. KILL ME

facw > Snuze: Needs another Swede 03/05/2020 at 12:56

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Yeah, there’s a reason why metric time starts with seconds and goes from there (and doesn’t map well to anything else).

In any event, have a somewhat relevant xkcd:

MasterMario - Keeper of the V8s > PartyPooper2012 03/05/2020 at 13:16

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I’m a fan of the international fixed calendar

There are 13 months with 28 days each (days of the week fall on the same day every month then) and one “Year Day” that is not a day of the week and then leap years there is a “Leap Day”

And both of those days should be internationally recognized holidays too if we adopted this