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Originally Posted by BadNick
Happy Birthday, Jetée!
While I ponder "why", can you tell us what inspired you to come up with a new calendar?
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Well, for starters, and this is just starters, I don't like that December is the 12th month, when for most of history, it was only the 10th one.
No calendar, as of yet, is
precise. They all have some sort of trick, loophole, and clause to make it work longterm. I want a fixed perptual one.
Also, I watched some sort of documentary on Ethopia and I thought their 13-month calendar was more ingenious than having 28, 29, 30, and 31-day months, but theirs is practically the same (they have a
leap month, or week). No set defined length of month.
Furthermore, I heard an offhanded comment about "if there three more hours in a day, then I'd definitely read books".
Lastly, I was commisioned by a higher power (my brain) to
conquer improve the world in at least one feasible way, and this seemed like the easiest manner in doing so.
This article is much better at explaining it than I am (especially for a nonsense-type thread):
Calendar reform - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Wikipedia ; born in the same place and same year as my childhood
PS
I also proposed a new day-naming system ; Nobody even knows who
Tiw is anymore. Get modernized. And, I somewhat agree with MOAB; if our most minscule rudiments of time-telling is metrics (nano,milli-seconds) then our entire time philosophy should be structured in this way as well.