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That no odder than Gregorian
by hhdhdbdb 2y ago
That no odder than Gregorian
- charlieyu1 2y agoStill not weirder than Lunar calendar
- stronglikedan 2y agoWhy use celestial bodies at all? Let's bring the Soviet calendar back!
- hprotagonist 2y agosomething something every 5 years.
- IggleSniggle 2y agoIt's not odd as in a more unusual system, but odd in that it is widely incompatible with the calendar of most of the world, but still official calendar. Kinda like the Kodak calendar (which was instead 13 28-day months (364 days), and iirc does the off-day adjustments over the corporate winter holiday...actually pretty reasonable)
- pc86 2y agoMerry Corporate Winter Holiday!
- xeromal 2y agolmao
- antod 2y agoNot reasonable at all... it's Corporate Summer Holiday around here.
- IggleSniggle 2y agoYou take that back!
- kergonath 2y agoThere are good reasons for the Gregorian calendar’s oddities, though. Any simple system stops being simple when you apply it to enough different situations. I am not sure programmers would like it better if each country had a different calendar for each season. Because a day that starts at 6 and ends at 18 would make sense 2 days each years here in Europe. Not even that if you go far enough North.