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Edit: Y'all be strange.

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[โ€“] bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 63 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I like the 13 months of 28 days calendar. With one special free day for newyears (two days for leap years).

[โ€“] Racle@sopuli.xyz 24 points 4 months ago (2 children)

And start week with a Monday, not a Sunday.

[โ€“] criitz@reddthat.com 9 points 4 months ago (1 children)

This also avoids every month from having a Friday the 13th

[โ€“] TexasDrunk@lemmy.world 3 points 4 months ago

That would be a nightmare for tattoo shops.

(For those that don't know, many tattoo shops have Friday 13th deals with specific flash you can get for multiples of $13 depending on complexity. The quality ones have new cute Friday 13th flash a couple of times a year and lines around the block.)

[โ€“] blaue_Fledermaus@mstdn.io 7 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Personally I prefer it starting on Sunday, but also here with Portuguese being the main language it only makes sense to start on Sunday, Monday to Friday are called second-fair, third-fair, fourth-fair, fifth-fair, and sixth-fair. Fair as in either market or festival.

[โ€“] Kusimulkku@lemm.ee 3 points 4 months ago

It just feels weird that some start it from the middle of the weekend

[โ€“] DemBoSain@midwest.social 27 points 4 months ago (2 children)

There are 365 days in a year. If we keep the standard 7 day week, that gives us 52 weeks, with a single day left over. That day can be New Years Day, and be outside the standard week. Call it a special day, make it a holiday, whatever. Leap years would have 2 special days. Put the second in the summer to balance the one in the winter.

That means every year is there same. Divide the year to into as many months as you want, as long as each one has a 'multiple of 7' days. January 1? Always a Sunday. April 3? Always Tuesday. Leap year day? It's on the calendar between Saturday and Sunday.

"Calendar Publishers Hate This One Trick"

[โ€“] essell@lemmy.world 26 points 4 months ago (1 children)

That'd be great for people whose birthdays and such fall on weekends, less so for the others.

[โ€“] MajorMajormajormajor@lemmy.ca 20 points 4 months ago

That's what they get for choosing a bad birthday in the character creation menu.

[โ€“] tamal3@lemmy.world 5 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Can that 1 extra day be election day, and can it be protected? --Love and a cry for help from the USA

[โ€“] janAkali@lemmy.one 8 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

Legend: w - work day w - weekend

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[โ€“] tetris11@lemmy.ml 4 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

"now this is podracing" ~ Woodrow Wilson

[โ€“] Godnroc@lemmy.world 8 points 4 months ago (2 children)

5 day weeks, 6 weeks per months for 30 days each, 12 months in a year, 5-6 days of celebration of the new year.

I love the idea of working 3 days and being off for 2.

Mine is close to this but 6 day weeks and 5 weeks a year. work wise I think each person should work 3 days and businesses run with two shifts.

[โ€“] WoodScientist@sh.itjust.works 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Are you trying to anger the gods? Below the fixed stars, there are seven great gods and their lights in the Heavens. And each has its appropriate day. Which two gods shall you so tempt their wrath by denying their day?

[โ€“] Godnroc@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

An easy answer as it is not for a mortal to decide which gods are deserving, rather the gods must decide by whomever survives.

Happy Day of Thor to you this fine afternoon!

[โ€“] ICastFist@programming.dev 8 points 4 months ago

I'd pull a xkcd, we'd have 13 months every year because it's a prime number, but the amount of days per month would be powers of two for the first 7 (also prime!) = 2, 4, 8, 16, 32, 64, 128; after that, apply some weird math with the current year in order to distribute the remaining 110 days among the 6 months but such that they all end with an odd number of days. Every month would have 2 weeks, made of half the month's days + 1.

[โ€“] xmunk@sh.itjust.works 7 points 4 months ago

Every day is a Tuesday the 6th. I'm pretty sure it'd summon Beelzebub.

[โ€“] agent_nycto@lemmy.world 7 points 4 months ago

Every year is one day. One very long day.

[โ€“] absGeekNZ@lemmy.nz 6 points 4 months ago

Maybe go with an 8 day week. 5 work days and 3 weekend days.

45 weeks in a year with 5 days for global holidays per year (with another one every leap year).

No months, just weeks.

Skip every other day for the void

[โ€“] jsomae@lemmy.ml 3 points 4 months ago

I'd swap tuesday and thursday, and sunday and saturday. SMTWTWFS

[โ€“] houstoneulers@lemmy.world 3 points 4 months ago

only S and S

[โ€“] Routhinator@startrek.website 2 points 4 months ago

Holoscenic calendar. I get mine from Kurzgesagt every year.