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at least computer scientists, would argue against the efficacy and accuracy of the Gregorian calendar.

Agreed. If I had it my way, basically everything would be using unix time.

[-] BleatingZombie@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago

I refuse to believe anything before Jan 1 1970 even happened

[-] abbotsbury@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

And if anything did happen, it wasn't any good.

[-] tetelestia@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Signed integers are the best integers.

Well, the music they created for the lie is good at least.

[-] Nouveau_Burnswick@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago
[-] Tavarin@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago

Seasons get a wee bit tricky with 13 as the number of weeks.

[-] Nouveau_Burnswick@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

How so? They are based on equinoxes and solstices.

[-] Tavarin@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago

but 13 weeks doesn't divide nicely into the equinoxes, so seasons will start at weird times in the weeks. 12 Months is divisible by 4 so seasons can begin at the same day every 3 months.

[-] Nouveau_Burnswick@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

I don't understand, the same ±1 day variation we have each year will stay the same? Do you mean the day of month? These are already spread out (20th, 21st, 22nd, and 21st, ±2).

So instead of the summer solstice being 21 June ±1, it will be month 6, day 4 ± 1 every year. (Assuming the year starts on what is now 1 Jan. (Spring is month 3 day 23, fall month 9, day 13, winter month 13 day 1). Seasons are still 91.25 days, or ~13 weeks. That just now means 3 months one week instead of 3ish months.

The moon phase of 29.54 days won't align, but it doesn't now anyways. So instead of months with 2 moons, we'd get months with no moon. Might have to change "one in a blue moon" to "on a moonless occassion". And imagine the killer party when day 0 or day 00 aligns with a full moon!

[-] Tavarin@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago

I shouldn't have said tricky initially, I should have said annoying and clunky.

Make your year 12 metric weeks, and have the seasons start on the 1st of every third week. Way less clunky than the 1st of the 1st week, the second subweek of the third week, the third subweek of the 6th week, and 4th subweek of the 9th week.

[-] afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Agh you sound like a C programmer. Just have a function do it for you.

I'm actually full stack C#

[-] tetelestia@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

What would Unix time improve? Yeah let's schedule to meet at 1693456789, repeating every 7*86,400 seconds.

Time zones are a mess, but that's not the fault of the calendar.

I'm joking for the most part

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