Or we could do metric time

As a software dev who has lost weeks of his life dealing with timezones, leap days, daylight savings time, date math and other associated nonsense I fully support this being the way the world is. I don't want to go through the transition to get there though

Bad news: this has nothing to do with timezones, leap days nor daylight saving time. Honestly, leap days would be worse because they wouldn't be part of the 7 day week
- It's accounted for just like any other leap year, add it to the end of a month as a universal holiday. Most calendar models make it July 29. It's also worth noting that this is actually 364 days, and a single day at the end of the year is a universal holiday.
  Edit: I think leap years should be at the end of the year too for simplicity.
- Just make them holidays, everyone works too much anyway, and it's just getting worse for no reason.
Developers are the only people against DST changes, just because of how complex it will get. Dear God cities are removing DST! Cities! It means I need to know if you are in or out of a city to know if you need to be shown daylight or standard time!
Just please do it nationally yes or no
- Write everything in UTC, cast to local time zone for UIs
  Life problems solved
- Dear God cities are removing DST! Cities! It means I need to know if you are in or out of a city to know if you need to be shown daylight or standard time!
  That's why it's lucky that identifiers in the tz database are already things like America/New_York instead of "eastern time."
- Newfoundland has only just over 500k population and has a nice GMT-2:30 time zone. That's an extra half hour difference. Many cities are larger so I can see them wanting better time for themselves.

France tried such calendar in 1789 and 1871. We lost it when Jules Ferry executed all the communalists in Paris. Some people in France still use those calendars to show their support to revolutionary ideas

There are a few websites and twitter accounts that remind you that today is Nonidi, 29 Germinal of the year CCXXXII.
- Picking up a newspaper in Thailand reminds you it’s year 2567
  The reckoning of the Buddhist Era in Thailand is 543 years ahead of Anno Domini, so the year 2024 AD corresponds to B.E. 2567.

A lunar day is 27.3 days and a solar cycle is 29 and change. So we'd be just off the lunar cycles. Like when you're sitting waiting for a turn lane signal to change and the person in front of you has a blinker that's just a tiny bit slower than yours.

Yeah sadly the rotations of Earth around its axis, the moon around Earth, and Earth around the sun don't divide each other nicely
- Why would god do this

This reminds me of a fantasy series I like, where the world still has 365 day, but every month is 30 days long, and the remaining 5 days are separate holidays for the solstices, equinoxes, and new years.

Also, when are we going to do 10hrs/day, 100 min/hr and 100s/min?

Don't decimalize time, instead dozenalize our numbers! Twelve is such a better building block than ten. Pretty much all math becomes way easier using dozenal numbers instead of decimal ones.
- With base 12 you can actually get a result for 1/3
Oh god, converting imperial kHz to metric kHz sounds awful
Also, when are we going to do 10hrs/day, 100 min/hr and 100s/min?
This is how you collectively give the entire scientific community a simultaneous aneurysm. The amount of work needed to convert measurements based on our current seconds/minutes/hours to your "metric" seconds/minutes/hours would be astronomical.
Also, pretty much everyone already agrees on the current system of time, so why change it? It would just create another metric/imperial or F/C divide and cause conversion mistakes.

28*13=364

New years day is always a holiday that doesn't fall on any other day of the calendar. It's just kind of its own thing. No idea how that would actually work irl but that is usually how this proposal is explained.
- As a software engineer, I beg of you

I do not want my birthday to fall on the same day each year!

Seems like a high price to pay just to test who cares enough.

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We should make the days 28 hours long as well while we're at it.

I actually had this happen once. My mental health actually improved, but it was untenable for my job and social life unfortunately. It was kinda nice for a couple months though.
- Afaik, the effect depends on if you have unusual circadian rhythm or not
What the flying fuck. I literally did that exact thing in university to manage my at-the-time undiagnosed sleep disorder.
I slept through like 30% of my classes, but it was the most rested I'd ever been in my life.

Can we do something about October being the 10th month of the year. It's stupid and annoying.

Blame the Caesars, Julius for July and Augustus for August.
- That's a common misconception. For the Romans, the year used to start with March and only have ten months. January and February weren't even named, it was just the time between harvest and the new year. Several calendar changes followed over the centuries. Adding two months (January and February). Moving the new year to January, which made September-December no longer 7-10. Adding random one-off months to realign with the seasons. And a couple different tries at leap days, among other things.
  Edit 2: To clarify, the above changes were all made by the Romans, they only started with a ten month calendar.
  This gives a quick overview.
  Edit: The fifth and sixth months were originally named Quintilis and Sextilis before they were changed to July and August.
- Tbf, the calendar before them was even worse
- I suppose we could fix it by moving the start of the year to March 1st. Start of spring makes more sense for the new year anyway.

You left out one day 28x13 is 364 The alignment to the weekdays is only right every seventh year. Every sixth of you account for leap years.

The international fixed calendar is basically what's described here. But it adds one day to bring it to 365, that day is called year day, and its an extra day, not a day of the week just a bonus day. Leap years get a second extra day 6 months later.

Ah yes, decimalized time. An idea so bad even the French said no, just no after trying it.

People being afraid of the number 13 doesnt make it a bad idea.

Just make inconvenient days holidays, few will complain.

We should divide the year into four suits — one for each season. Each suit is thirteen weeks long, numbered ace to king. Sometimes we have a Joker day.

Ah yes, the Balatro calendar. I play a King of Diamonds, which triples the number of days in June and removes October.

I hate the idea of metric time (for a lot of use cases metric is still awesome).

12 and 60 can be easily divided by 2, 3, 4, 6. 60 also by 5 and 10. Even for 8 it's still kind of easy.

For 10 or 100 division is easy for 2, 5 and 10 and okay-ish for 4.

The 12/60 (and 360 degrees of a circle) are such an elegant system!

We should "just" switch to base-6 (or maybe 12) first
- AFAIK the system goes back to the old Babylonians who had a base-60 system subdivided into 5 times 12. 5 times 12 could easily be counted using your thumb to count the 12 knuckles on the other fingers and the 5 fingers of the other hand.
  I mean, how amazing is counting like that! I only learned to count to 10 with my fingers. I love the base-10 for its simplicity but base-60, subbase-12 is the shit :D
- If only we had 6 digits per hand as standard, basic maths would be so much easier for everyone

i'm intrigued, but leap days would fuck it up though

This meme already ignores the fact that it's only produced a calendar of 364 days.
Most proposed versions I've seen of this calendar have New Year's Day as a standalone holiday, so the leap day presumably tacks on to that every 4 years?
Also imagine your birthday always being on a Monday...

Can we start the 1st on Sunday though so every month has a Friday the 13th?

Software developers hearing we're changing the calendar 💀

We should all just switch to Unix time.
- That'll be great for 14 years

Metric time is TAI

In preparation for the upcoming Bell Riots, WWIII, Eugenics Wars, First Contact, Battle of Wolf 359, and Dominion Wars, I say we stop beating around the bush and adopt the Bajoran 26 hour day.

I've actual been saying this for years for this exact reason. God forbid we not be able to divide a year into clean quarters.

I like it.

But mostly because of all the furor it’ll cause.

Quarters would be weird for businesses so it would never catch on.

We could all unionize and just take the first month off, set it in the deepest part of winter, January or so, and just set Christmas to be during that month. Although people might not be thrilled to move Christmas to after New Year's.
- Christmas is already after New Year's in the current calendar year ;)

International Fixed Calendar? I seem to remember hearing a proposal for the 13th month being called Sol which is kinda cool.

The 13th month should be called eleven, because it'd come after December (10), our 12th month.

Wouldn't it make sense to have the 1st be a Sunday and 28th be a Saturday?

Iirc most countries consider Monday the beginning of the week and Sunday the end of the week, hence the term "weekend"
- TIL, in the UK we seem to see Sunday as the first day of the week, but under ISO it's monday. Interesting.
I used to think the same, even made fun of friends and family for setting calendars to start on Monday, but then I tried it and found the light
- What's so important about a visual change 🤣