Can we start a petition to move September/October/November/December to have September land where July currently is, and then current November and December become Undecember and Duodecember to make the numbers line up again?
First you most become a despot, after that you can force your way
You could just go back. Before the romans changed the start of the year to January, it was March. That way the “climate” would still be roughly what you expect from a September and not two months of. In another comment I linked to a calendar proposal called SAC13 that incorporates exactly that (it also fixes many other issues the Gregorian Calendar has).
Cool fact. I didn’t know that
I think this decision was shit because it made the eighth month, october, into the tenth month, ruining the naming convention
You’ll have to take that up with Julius depending, of course, if you’re going to the same place he is.
Julius hasn’t been forcing people to keep it this way.
… the ground?
Looking for a better calendar without arbitrary new year 🤣
And fix the prefixes Sept, Oct., and Dec to align with the months while you’re at it.
You should take a look 🤣 did that, or better said that’s a side effect of starting with march.
Oh yeah. Didn’t notice the “starting in March” part.
I prefer the opposite: The 'Pataphysical calendar
- every day has a name, as well as a number
- the last day of the month exists on the calendar but doesn’t happen in reality (with some exceptions)
- every month has a Friday 13th
Never heard of that one before. What’s the point of having an imaginary 29th?
it emerged out of the surrealist movement via Alfred Jarry.
For reference his play “Ubu Roi” (Ubu the King) starts with the word “merdre” (often translated at “pshit” or “shitski”) - which after it was uttered in the first performance, caused a 15 minute riot in the theatre.
The purpose, such as it is, is that you can make it “unimaginary” for a leap year etc, or if you need an extra day in a month for whatever reason - and it doesn’t alter the rest of the year.
I still don’t see the benefits. It’s a bit like saying that every Februar (in the Gregorian calendar) had 29 days but sometimes it’s imaginary and sometimes it’s not.
Would you phone calendar show “imaginary days”? Could you schedule meetings on imaginary days? If yes - that would probably be a complete mess, and if not - why even call it “imaginary day” if it’s not a day at all.
Seems a bit like a bandaid that tries to make it more symmetric/pretty. We could expand all months to 32 days in the Gregorian calender and just call some of the days imaginary. That way all months would be the exact same length 🤣
there are no benefits really. it was part of the surrealists who were doing things to be provocative
Looks like it worked 🤣
I watched a video earlier saying that it was for an administrative reason.