I love it when ideas that have absolutely no chance of adoption get fully thought through anyway. Esperanto is a similar idea for language - too moonshotty, but complete.<p><a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esperanto" rel="nofollow">https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esperanto</a>
The two problems as I see it:<p>- A leap week is worse than a leap year. 7 days of birthdays that just don’t exist most years.<p>- No variety in day of week for your birthday. I know it’s just a cultural thing, but always celebrating a birthday on say a Tuesday sounds depressing to me.
I've been thinking about alternative calendars recently. This is quite interesting. I wonder if we will ever get to a point that we can have a "base 10" calendar (10 day weeks, 10 months in a year, etc.)<p>I suppose in-grained traditions that are so hard to change (birthdays, memorials, etc.) make this nigh impossible.
The thing is though, our current calendar, while maybe not super logical and/or always practical, is not broken in the sense that we're dealing with major unfixable problems. So changing to anything other than what we currently have is creating more issues than it's trying to solve.<p>And I say that as a purist and nitpicker who loves everything being perfect and organized.
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Fixed_Calendar" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Fixed_Calendar</a><p>Sounds similar, and IMHO a bit better, because every month is the same and has only one leap day, instead of a whole leap week.
My [alarm] clock displays unix time and a count down in seconds. After a few years I've only partially got used to it. The half alseep version of me does appericate the count down a lot. I just remembered I should experiment counting the seconds of the day.
Friday the 13th doesn't exist on this calendar. Neither do it's cousins Friday the 17th and Tuesday the 13th. Interesting.<p>This sounds great except the fact it would be a complete nightmare for developers the world over.
I remember in 2004 being fascinated with the tons of alternative proposals to the current calendar. Read about them on the kind of sites one can now find using wiby ;)