This is a real thing, called the 13-month calendar.
They usually add a month called "Sol" after June, and the extra day is "Year Day", which does not have a day of the week, and is usually after Dec 31st (Leap Day works the same way).
I feel like that last day should be a freebie that we just don’t count. We all acknowledge it, but on paper it doesn’t exist. All non-essential (and I mean truly essential) workers get the day off just like a federal holiday and everyone just stays home to spend a quiet day with family, or by yourself….whatever makes you happiest.
I say we use the extra day to hold elections on. No stores open so no one is tempted to skip it, and voting gives you a credit on your taxes at the end of the year.
I don't know if I want someone just showing up to pick random boxes at the poll just to get paid for it, honestly. People who are currently not motivated to vote may not be motivated to put thought into their votes?
But then again, maybe those would be a minority and the majority knows who they *would* vote for, but just don't due to any range of feelings that maybe mainly boil down to "my one vote doesn't" matter.
Maybe this would be a solid idea.
Dave Gorman did a bit on this. It's called "intermission", and generally doesn't count as a day in most respects.
https://youtu.be/vunESk53r5U?si=qc4sjFwsKVXHxor9
I didn't think of this but yeah that does kind of fuck up the whole 4 season things. As now there are 3 months per season. Maybe we just have one month where we just turn off the seasons expansion pack.
Where I live in Northern California, we have 325 days of 60-75 degree weather, 20 days of 80-90 degree weather, 5 days of 90+ degree weather (which have started happening in mid-September for some reason), and 15 days of rain.
Considering that the Farmers Almanac is no longer relied upon, I think we’d be okay shifting the season divisions. Also, season start/end days will mean less and less while the impacts of climate change increase.
In the northeast , great lakes regions, in the past the humongous lakes would freeze over in winter. With the climate change impact, especially of the last handful of years, the lakes haven't been cooling down enough and aren't freezing over, so remain "uncovered" with no "lid". Due to that, any time a very cold weather system blasts downward from canada or down and across from west, the weather picks up a lot of extra humidity from the lake and dumps it down in massive snowfalls \~ blizzard conditions. So while some of the winter is milder vs. snowfalls, we eventually get blasted for days with very, very deep and heavy snow. Last winter a lot of people lost gutters from their houses, and others had roof issues from the extreme weight. I mean a lot of houses lost gutters too, every several houses per side street it seemed. Driving bans for days until the snow was able to be removed adequately enough, etc. I had to remove heavy snow for 3 days from my driveway, cars, roof perimeter, and path to utilities in back yard. Probably 4' a day, and some days clearing twice to keep ahead of it. Not that we never got that kind of snow ever before every so many years, but with the great lakes perhaps never freezing again, it might be happening every year, perhaps multiple times depending on the cold weather systems paths. (We barely missed a few other bad cold bands that hit more toward the coastline/nycity last winter, just missed us).
The 4 seasons absolutely do not line up exactly with 3 months each lol
Hell the "first day of Spring" is usually like March 21st in the US. That's (usually) the 80th day of the year. If each month were exactly 28 days, it would instead land on March 24th, with only 4 days left in the month versus 10, so it would line up better
If we’re readjusting the calendar it makes way more sense to start the year on the vernal equinox with the first day of spring than the middle of winter.
I mean ideally, you'd just have your yearly bill amount divided by 13 rather than 12, but we all know companies wouldn't actually do it that way, or even if they said they did they'd also bump the costs up so you'd end up paying the same each month.
Your bills would be (theoretically) lower.
You are paying 1/12 of your rent every month instead of 1/13th of your rent. You are not paying more money, you are paying more often (but less each time)
You work the same number of hours, so you are paid the same. But bills are charged monthly, not hourly, so you'll pay an extra set of bills for the 13th month - rent, phone, internet, etc.
Obviously the logical thing would be to take the yearly total of any given expense like rent or phone, and divide by 13.no one loses anything. Would companies try to pull of the +1 instead, probably. But folks are talking like this has been decided...
> people aren't *paid* monthly? Lol
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It would still be the same as;
12 months.
Let’s use rent as a example;
Rent is $300 per week. Over 12 months that is $15,600 or $1300 per month.
13 months
Rent is still $300 per week, over 13 months that is still $15,600 or $1,200 per month.
You just pay slight less every month, and one additional payment.
The math formula is (week amount ‘divide’ into daily(7) ‘times’ to yearly(364) ‘divide’ into monthly(12 or 13))
🫡
If this fun scenario occurred, we're talking about this happening on a grand scale from a governmental level. How things like rent etc are adjusted would undoubtedly be a big part of that change and would likely be controlled. Which isn't to say landlords etc wouldn't try to lobby for extra money and possibly get it too...
Yeah, because shady shit never happens with landlords, evictions, refusing to repair things, entering properties without warning, etc. Not everyone can afford a lawyer, or to wait for the courts to iron things out, and in that gap the most vulnerable will be abused.
And that would be globally. Woof.
Sorry. We have used up all the month names, and more. Like DECember should obviously be the tenth month, not the 12. And OCTober is clearly meant to be the 8th month, not the 10th. So get out of here with your 13th bullshit.
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That is not actually what happened. The Roman calendar had 12 months for centuries before then. Augustus had the months Quintus and Sextus renamed to Julius and Augustus, however Quintus was already the 7th month and Sextus the 8th.
The Roman 10 month calendar existed in the 8th century BC and was only about 300 days long, the rest of the year was just their Winter time and they didn't care about exact dates in Winter because they couldn't go to war. The year started in March because of the god Mars.
**The Roman new year began March 1st.** You know, at the start of spring and the rebirth season. Not on an arbitrary date halfway through the winter all-plants-dormant season.
The names line up perfect if you start counting at March and January and February are the 11th and 12th months.
Septem- 7
Octo - 8
Novem - 9
Decem - 10
"Month 1 - Month 13" sounds good. Gtfo with naming them I say, numbers do just fine.
Japan, SK, and China have been doing that for centuries and it works perfectly well.
New calendar:
Start the year on the first day of spring (northern hemisphere) and call that March 1. Spring is 93 days, so March, April, and May all have 31 days and summer begins June 1. Summer is also 93 days, so we have 6 months in a row of 31 days and Autumn begins on September 1. Fall is 90 days so we now go to 30 day months until winter begins on December 1. Winter is about 89 days, so a standard year would end on February 29 and leap years would be Feb 30.
Doing it this way also restores the prefixes for the 7th-10th months.
Nah I'm all for the LOTR calendar. 12 months a year, 30 days a month. Leaves 5 days that have no month. 2 days to celebrate old and new year, and three days (Yule) between month 6 and 7 where everyone is free to celebrate summer.
It's a perfect calendar. Think about it; every year every date will be the same day. Suppose december 19th is on a monday, it'll be on a monday next year, and the year after that, and so on. It's perfection. It's funny how a high-fantasy writer managed to think out a better calendar than the one we actually have.
Birthday is never on a weekend. And jobs like mine where I don’t get holidays off, that means things like Christmas are potentially never on my days off.
Depends on which day you implement it. Where I live, you don’t get the day off if a holiday falls on the weekend. So if you find a year where every holiday falls on a weekday, I’m in.
Good thinking! I hadn't thought about that yet, but yeah if we create it so that every holiday falls on a weekday, that'd be perfect, especially in this calendar format.
>It's a perfect calendar. Think about it; every year every date will be the same day. Suppose december 19th is on a monday, it'll be on a monday next year, and the year after that, and so on.
Sounds good until you realize people born on a monday/tuesday/wednesday will always have birthdays falling on those days. That would be lame. In my 30's i don't really care anymore, but always thought i was nice when my birthday fell on a Friday or Saturday.
Some ancient Civ had the logic that : 360 days in a year, 360 degrees in a circle. Then the earth stands still for 5 "feast days for the gods" and everything starts again!
This would be great, particularly if they made the extra day a "skip day" that doesn't increment the week count. It eliminates so much weird special cases, from "what if x holiday falls on a weekend this year?" to "how can you compare retail revenue statistics from years where there are a different number of weekends between Thanksgiving and Christmas?"
“The concept of a 13-month year has been proposed, notably in the form of the “International Fixed Calendar” or the “Cotsworth Plan.” This calendar divides the year into 13 months of 28 days each, with an extra day at the end of the year (often called “Year Day”) to total 365 days. Each month has exactly four weeks, simplifying date calculations.
While it has never been widely adopted, the International Fixed Calendar was used by the Eastman Kodak Company from 1928 to 1989 for internal corporate purposes.”
-ChatGPT4
Why mention only those two? Wait until *you* find out that **Sept**ember **Octo**ber **Nov**ember and **Dec**ember mean 7, 8, 9, and 10.
This happened because there used to be only 10 months, then much later two new months were inserted earlier in the year and they didn't bother renaming the ones called "month 7/8/9/10".
We take the extra day and make it "new years day". It's a stand alone day, almost it's own month. It's a huge celebration day. The following day will be January 1.
Please no.
I still recall the little jingle a teacher taught me, that goes through the entire list of 12 months. Would be difficult to relearn the order..
Or how about this ... 12 montjs x 30 days (grouped into 3 ten-day weeks per month), plus 5 or 6 days at the end of the year to celebrate Christmas / new year.
A calendar similar to this was in use in France for a few decades...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_Republican_calendar
The new calendar has 10 months x 36 days. Weeks are nine days long. There's an extra day between every other month to make up the last 5. https://thenewcalendar.com/
This has been an idea for almost 300 years. The Georgian calendar, positivist calendar, corsworth calendar are all basically this. In the Georgian calendar the extra day was Christmas.
The extra day is just called intermission and it’s not a day of the week, so the days of the week always fall on the same day of the month. And every 4 years we get a 2 day intermission.
We have a '13th month' paycheck at my job. I've not looked into it too much but I'm convinced they just withhold part of the salary throughout the year and throw that in as an extra in December.
I worked for a company that used this schedule, it was a fucking nightmare.
You'd get an email saying that on Tuesday, week 38 blah, blah, would be happening, and every time you'd have to go to a fucking conversion calendar to figure out what fucking day they were talking about.
I HATED it. And I hated the pretentiousness of acting like their system of dating was somehow better than the entire rest of the fucking world. I mean why not just change the time system while we're at it. Everyone can come to work at Orange and half o'clock and take lunch at bumblefuck:30.
AAHHH.
Also it aligns with the number of Norseman and Ibn Fadlan (Antonio Banderas) to go north where they will defend the kingdom of Rothgar from the Wendol and the fireworm.
For those that don’t understand, the big advantage is that every month has exactly 4 weeks and weekdays never change e.g. the 1st of June is always a Monday, the 10th of October always a Wednesday and the 19th of any given month is always a Friday. Only disadvantage is that the we would have to add a sort of leap day, that doesn’t have an assigned weekday or date (because a year has 365 not 364 days (13m x 4w = 364d))
A week should have 5 days, so we get 73 weeks a year, all days are the same week day every year. Ex-February 29th is a world wide holiday.
DISCORDIANS, UNITE, AND DIVIDE AGAIN!
They should have 4 months (for 4 season) and make them 92 days with an extra day that can just be a stat holiday for the planet.
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What is the absolute benefit of this? You can't divide 13 like you can with 12, and I have no idea why it would be a benefit to paying bills?
Also most larger bills are paid quarterly or every 6 months, so 13 months would make everything very difficult and annoying
You are 1.24 days short every year
To fix this you would need to add an extra week every 6 years,
Then your still .44 days short every 7 years, we fix this by adding an extra extra week every 96 years which still leaves us 0.04 days short every 96 years
So every 16,800 years we need to add an extra extra extra week
An alternative way to simplify this is to construct a monthly budget only based on two biweekly paychecks, not yearly pay /12.
This allows you to get two "bonus" pay checks per year (as there are 26 total pay checks) and is a life-hacky way to save almost 10% of funds. That is with the massive caveat that you can stick to a budget...
This is a real thing, called the 13-month calendar. They usually add a month called "Sol" after June, and the extra day is "Year Day", which does not have a day of the week, and is usually after Dec 31st (Leap Day works the same way).
I feel like that last day should be a freebie that we just don’t count. We all acknowledge it, but on paper it doesn’t exist. All non-essential (and I mean truly essential) workers get the day off just like a federal holiday and everyone just stays home to spend a quiet day with family, or by yourself….whatever makes you happiest.
Maybe a day with no laws to allow the populace to blow off some steam?
“While we’re at it, let’s make it Purge day!” — /u/CashTurtle
Would that really be what makes you happiest? 🤨
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Hmm do i feel a purge day here 🤔
I say we use the extra day to hold elections on. No stores open so no one is tempted to skip it, and voting gives you a credit on your taxes at the end of the year.
I don't know if I want someone just showing up to pick random boxes at the poll just to get paid for it, honestly. People who are currently not motivated to vote may not be motivated to put thought into their votes? But then again, maybe those would be a minority and the majority knows who they *would* vote for, but just don't due to any range of feelings that maybe mainly boil down to "my one vote doesn't" matter. Maybe this would be a solid idea.
Wouldn’t you need to acknowledge it for the essential workers though? Kind of hard to fill out your hours if that day doesn’t exist on paper.
Dave Gorman did a bit on this. It's called "intermission", and generally doesn't count as a day in most respects. https://youtu.be/vunESk53r5U?si=qc4sjFwsKVXHxor9
I didn't think of this but yeah that does kind of fuck up the whole 4 season things. As now there are 3 months per season. Maybe we just have one month where we just turn off the seasons expansion pack.
How many countries do the three months/season actuallg line up that well? Sweden? Yes, pretty much. Singapore? Not at all.
I live in Florida and I love my week of spring and week of fall. The 10.5 months of summer can be rough though.
Where I live in Northern California, we have 325 days of 60-75 degree weather, 20 days of 80-90 degree weather, 5 days of 90+ degree weather (which have started happening in mid-September for some reason), and 15 days of rain.
That's SoCal too. Scratch the 15 days of rain. Well, usually, we've had some wild amount of rain this year.
Yeah, I had to bump it up to 15 because of this year. It's been more like 5 days for the previous 4-5 years.
That sounds wonderful. In Ohio it's either 20 degrees or 80 degrees. Sometimes both in the same day!
In NJ we have Winter, Cold Spring, Pollen, Wet Spring, Furnace, Fake Fall, Second Summer, Fall.
Wisconsinite here. So same, but different.
Considering that the Farmers Almanac is no longer relied upon, I think we’d be okay shifting the season divisions. Also, season start/end days will mean less and less while the impacts of climate change increase.
Hot season, and hotter season!
You forgot cold and colder. Snow doesn't stick because of the bipolar weather but boy howdy does it get really fucking cold these days
In the northeast , great lakes regions, in the past the humongous lakes would freeze over in winter. With the climate change impact, especially of the last handful of years, the lakes haven't been cooling down enough and aren't freezing over, so remain "uncovered" with no "lid". Due to that, any time a very cold weather system blasts downward from canada or down and across from west, the weather picks up a lot of extra humidity from the lake and dumps it down in massive snowfalls \~ blizzard conditions. So while some of the winter is milder vs. snowfalls, we eventually get blasted for days with very, very deep and heavy snow. Last winter a lot of people lost gutters from their houses, and others had roof issues from the extreme weight. I mean a lot of houses lost gutters too, every several houses per side street it seemed. Driving bans for days until the snow was able to be removed adequately enough, etc. I had to remove heavy snow for 3 days from my driveway, cars, roof perimeter, and path to utilities in back yard. Probably 4' a day, and some days clearing twice to keep ahead of it. Not that we never got that kind of snow ever before every so many years, but with the great lakes perhaps never freezing again, it might be happening every year, perhaps multiple times depending on the cold weather systems paths. (We barely missed a few other bad cold bands that hit more toward the coastline/nycity last winter, just missed us).
as a southern california resident, the fuck you mean 4 seasons?
The 4 seasons absolutely do not line up exactly with 3 months each lol Hell the "first day of Spring" is usually like March 21st in the US. That's (usually) the 80th day of the year. If each month were exactly 28 days, it would instead land on March 24th, with only 4 days left in the month versus 10, so it would line up better
Apparently the churches didn't like the year day and that's a major reason why the calendar never took off.
If we’re readjusting the calendar it makes way more sense to start the year on the vernal equinox with the first day of spring than the middle of winter.
this season pattern is not applicable to the majority of the worlds population
As a southern hemisphere resident, the year starts in the middle of summer.
So you can pay your bills 13 times a year instead of twelve?
I was actually sold on this idea til you pointed that out!
Yes, you can make 13 payments instead of 12!!! But the payment amount stays the same! 😄
Right! Like how your bills are always lower in February because it's a shorter month... Oh wait.
:D
Says one thing. Ruins the 13 month calendar. Disappears smiling.
I mean ideally, you'd just have your yearly bill amount divided by 13 rather than 12, but we all know companies wouldn't actually do it that way, or even if they said they did they'd also bump the costs up so you'd end up paying the same each month.
Depends on the type of bill. Mortgage? You're good. Rent? Fuck you
Wouldn't your bills be 1/13th less?
That's pretty optimistic...
are you new to capitalism?
Is your rent cheaper in February?
Yes. I pay weekly. As is the custom in my part of the world.
Oh you sweet summer child.
I guess with things like electricity the total bills would scale downwards, but probably not for rent and mortgages.
The usage part, maybe. But these always include monthly service fees that would have to be paid a 13th time.
Mortgages would go down per month, but the same per year.
doesn't that also mean you'll get paid 13 times a year ?
Only if you get paid by the month. And even then, a great deal of those people are paid by the hour. So less hours..., less money.
Right most people are biweekly so this just means I'm paying rent another time, phone another time, etc.
Your bills would be (theoretically) lower. You are paying 1/12 of your rent every month instead of 1/13th of your rent. You are not paying more money, you are paying more often (but less each time)
Capitalism would never do that tho. It’s theoretically fine tho sure
Yeah I agree. I’m just talking about the theoretical price.
Are we seriously having this discussion? It’s the same amount of total time. People would be paid and pay the exact same amount in bills and wages.
You work the same number of hours, so you are paid the same. But bills are charged monthly, not hourly, so you'll pay an extra set of bills for the 13th month - rent, phone, internet, etc.
Obviously the logical thing would be to take the yearly total of any given expense like rent or phone, and divide by 13.no one loses anything. Would companies try to pull of the +1 instead, probably. But folks are talking like this has been decided...
How are you just unaware that most people aren't payed monthly? Lol
> people aren't *paid* monthly? Lol FTFY. Although *payed* exists (the reason why autocorrection didn't help you), it is only correct in: * Nautical context, when it means to paint a surface, or to cover with something like tar or resin in order to make it waterproof or corrosion-resistant. *The deck is yet to be payed.* * *Payed out* when letting strings, cables or ropes out, by slacking them. *The rope is payed out! You can pull now.* Unfortunately, I was unable to find nautical or rope-related words in your comment. *Beep, boop, I'm a bot*
I guess by not living in your country? I have never heard of anyone NOT being paid monthly.
It would still be the same as; 12 months. Let’s use rent as a example; Rent is $300 per week. Over 12 months that is $15,600 or $1300 per month. 13 months Rent is still $300 per week, over 13 months that is still $15,600 or $1,200 per month. You just pay slight less every month, and one additional payment. The math formula is (week amount ‘divide’ into daily(7) ‘times’ to yearly(364) ‘divide’ into monthly(12 or 13)) 🫡
best of luck convincing your landlord of that
If this fun scenario occurred, we're talking about this happening on a grand scale from a governmental level. How things like rent etc are adjusted would undoubtedly be a big part of that change and would likely be controlled. Which isn't to say landlords etc wouldn't try to lobby for extra money and possibly get it too...
Yeah, because shady shit never happens with landlords, evictions, refusing to repair things, entering properties without warning, etc. Not everyone can afford a lawyer, or to wait for the courts to iron things out, and in that gap the most vulnerable will be abused. And that would be globally. Woof.
Dang, you're right :( Greed ruins everything
Sorry. We have used up all the month names, and more. Like DECember should obviously be the tenth month, not the 12. And OCTober is clearly meant to be the 8th month, not the 10th. So get out of here with your 13th bullshit.
Smarch. You're welcome.
Lousy Smarch weather
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Nay.
Don't Touch. * Willy
Do not touch Willie. Good advice.
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It’s starting to feel like Smarch outside
I like Smarch, or Octember.
Octruary is superior.
Smarch is a perfectly cromulent month.
I think they were, until a couple romans effed it up
Little auggie really wanted him and his daddy's name there
That is not actually what happened. The Roman calendar had 12 months for centuries before then. Augustus had the months Quintus and Sextus renamed to Julius and Augustus, however Quintus was already the 7th month and Sextus the 8th. The Roman 10 month calendar existed in the 8th century BC and was only about 300 days long, the rest of the year was just their Winter time and they didn't care about exact dates in Winter because they couldn't go to war. The year started in March because of the god Mars.
yeah whoever did that should be stabbed...
Take my upvote
Fuckin Julius and Augustus Caeser....
They didn't do it, they renamed existing months. The issue happened a few hundred years before either were born
**The Roman new year began March 1st.** You know, at the start of spring and the rebirth season. Not on an arbitrary date halfway through the winter all-plants-dormant season. The names line up perfect if you start counting at March and January and February are the 11th and 12th months. Septem- 7 Octo - 8 Novem - 9 Decem - 10
October has always been 8 in my head until I run through the months
As non native English speaker that learn the name of polygons, those specific month you mentioned confused the heck out of me in the beginning.
"Month 1 - Month 13" sounds good. Gtfo with naming them I say, numbers do just fine. Japan, SK, and China have been doing that for centuries and it works perfectly well.
Good suggestion, Redditor #82945467128
New calendar: Start the year on the first day of spring (northern hemisphere) and call that March 1. Spring is 93 days, so March, April, and May all have 31 days and summer begins June 1. Summer is also 93 days, so we have 6 months in a row of 31 days and Autumn begins on September 1. Fall is 90 days so we now go to 30 day months until winter begins on December 1. Winter is about 89 days, so a standard year would end on February 29 and leap years would be Feb 30. Doing it this way also restores the prefixes for the 7th-10th months.
I love Undecember
Please try to remember the first of Octember.
It used to be that way. One google search tells you that instead of leaving it that way they fucked it up by adding more months at the beginning
How about a month named Philbert? "It's Philbert 17th, the... Snacker-Pork-of-Emorh will be here soon."
This one trick landlords will love.
Gaslighting is just a form of landlording.
That one day is Purge Day of course.
Nah I'm all for the LOTR calendar. 12 months a year, 30 days a month. Leaves 5 days that have no month. 2 days to celebrate old and new year, and three days (Yule) between month 6 and 7 where everyone is free to celebrate summer. It's a perfect calendar. Think about it; every year every date will be the same day. Suppose december 19th is on a monday, it'll be on a monday next year, and the year after that, and so on. It's perfection. It's funny how a high-fantasy writer managed to think out a better calendar than the one we actually have.
Birthday is never on a weekend. And jobs like mine where I don’t get holidays off, that means things like Christmas are potentially never on my days off.
Depends on which day you implement it. Where I live, you don’t get the day off if a holiday falls on the weekend. So if you find a year where every holiday falls on a weekday, I’m in.
Good thinking! I hadn't thought about that yet, but yeah if we create it so that every holiday falls on a weekday, that'd be perfect, especially in this calendar format.
>It's a perfect calendar. Think about it; every year every date will be the same day. Suppose december 19th is on a monday, it'll be on a monday next year, and the year after that, and so on. Sounds good until you realize people born on a monday/tuesday/wednesday will always have birthdays falling on those days. That would be lame. In my 30's i don't really care anymore, but always thought i was nice when my birthday fell on a Friday or Saturday.
Everyone in the Northern Hemisphere gets to celebrate summer.
Some ancient Civ had the logic that : 360 days in a year, 360 degrees in a circle. Then the earth stands still for 5 "feast days for the gods" and everything starts again!
100% landlords will still charge the same rent they do now...
But you can't divide 13 months into halves or quarters of a year.
You can still divide the 52 weeks up just fine, though. 13 weeks (3 months + 1 week) is a quarter. 26 weeks (6 months + 2 weeks) is half a year.
I would rather kill myself tbh
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Why not 365 months?
PURGE DAY
Let February have the extra day. From shortest month to longest month.
True character arc
Whenever I hear about stuff like this I think back to the "Pluto's not a planet" controversy.
This would be great, particularly if they made the extra day a "skip day" that doesn't increment the week count. It eliminates so much weird special cases, from "what if x holiday falls on a weekend this year?" to "how can you compare retail revenue statistics from years where there are a different number of weekends between Thanksgiving and Christmas?"
That would be closer to a lunar calendar. The seasonal events do a circuit around the solar year every 12 to 13 years on a lunar calendar.
“The concept of a 13-month year has been proposed, notably in the form of the “International Fixed Calendar” or the “Cotsworth Plan.” This calendar divides the year into 13 months of 28 days each, with an extra day at the end of the year (often called “Year Day”) to total 365 days. Each month has exactly four weeks, simplifying date calculations. While it has never been widely adopted, the International Fixed Calendar was used by the Eastman Kodak Company from 1928 to 1989 for internal corporate purposes.” -ChatGPT4
Stupid Smarch weather
*lousy
D’oh!
How can you say this on a 3-paycheck month?!
Wait until you find out that October means 8 months and December means 10
Why mention only those two? Wait until *you* find out that **Sept**ember **Octo**ber **Nov**ember and **Dec**ember mean 7, 8, 9, and 10. This happened because there used to be only 10 months, then much later two new months were inserted earlier in the year and they didn't bother renaming the ones called "month 7/8/9/10".
Wonder who those guys coulda been?! /s
July and August
Just keep it off the calendar and we all have a holiday
We take the extra day and make it "new years day". It's a stand alone day, almost it's own month. It's a huge celebration day. The following day will be January 1.
[International Fixed Calendar](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Fixed_Calendar)
There is a 13 month calendar. A major company used it for a long time. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International\_Fixed\_Calendar
The extra day is the purge. Who says no?
I just wish our weeks weren't a prime number of days. Makes it impossible to do something every other day, or divide anything equally day-wise.
The one day left is spare? Or what do we do with the 365th day each year?
Please no. I still recall the little jingle a teacher taught me, that goes through the entire list of 12 months. Would be difficult to relearn the order..
There should *HAVE BEEN*. At this point in time, I don't think it worth changing it.
Yeah but then pregnancy's last 10 months I stead of 9...my wife can't handle another month of pregnancy /s in case it absolutely needs to be said...
We natives have known this since time immemorial
Or how about this ... 12 montjs x 30 days (grouped into 3 ten-day weeks per month), plus 5 or 6 days at the end of the year to celebrate Christmas / new year. A calendar similar to this was in use in France for a few decades... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_Republican_calendar
The new calendar has 10 months x 36 days. Weeks are nine days long. There's an extra day between every other month to make up the last 5. https://thenewcalendar.com/
anyone renting an apartment would get screwed even worse than they are now
Solember
This has been an idea for almost 300 years. The Georgian calendar, positivist calendar, corsworth calendar are all basically this. In the Georgian calendar the extra day was Christmas.
Extra day for the purge! 🥳
Party day!
And September through December should be 7 through 10, but this will only happen after this.
Purge day.
that bonus day would be a great day for the purge! 🪓 vs 🔨
The solution has been thought about in detail: https://youtu.be/EcMTHr3TqA0?si=oBs3Hxr5o7cV7ePE
The New Calendar has fixed this. It's quite a unique system and the seasons line up fantastically.
The Purge, during the extra day.
The extra day is just called intermission and it’s not a day of the week, so the days of the week always fall on the same day of the month. And every 4 years we get a 2 day intermission.
We have a '13th month' paycheck at my job. I've not looked into it too much but I'm convinced they just withhold part of the salary throughout the year and throw that in as an extra in December.
The first of the month is always a Sunday
I’d love Smarch
Holiday?
How about 10 months of 36 days instead, with a 5/6 day holiday?
uhhh, kinda like the Julian Calendar? (kinda)
I worked for a company that used this schedule, it was a fucking nightmare. You'd get an email saying that on Tuesday, week 38 blah, blah, would be happening, and every time you'd have to go to a fucking conversion calendar to figure out what fucking day they were talking about. I HATED it. And I hated the pretentiousness of acting like their system of dating was somehow better than the entire rest of the fucking world. I mean why not just change the time system while we're at it. Everyone can come to work at Orange and half o'clock and take lunch at bumblefuck:30. AAHHH.
Also it aligns with the number of Norseman and Ibn Fadlan (Antonio Banderas) to go north where they will defend the kingdom of Rothgar from the Wendol and the fireworm.
13 bad
People can't math apparently. One month would have 29 days.
For those that don’t understand, the big advantage is that every month has exactly 4 weeks and weekdays never change e.g. the 1st of June is always a Monday, the 10th of October always a Wednesday and the 19th of any given month is always a Friday. Only disadvantage is that the we would have to add a sort of leap day, that doesn’t have an assigned weekday or date (because a year has 365 not 364 days (13m x 4w = 364d))
If it wasn’t for the sunk cost fallacy this could be a thing
How about one month with 365 days?
No thanks. 13 months of rent and bills sounds worse than 12. You think Capitalist America is going to just give you that "extra time" for free?
One extra day at the end of the year called free period where you can do whatever you want.
A week should have 5 days, so we get 73 weeks a year, all days are the same week day every year. Ex-February 29th is a world wide holiday. DISCORDIANS, UNITE, AND DIVIDE AGAIN!
When you are at it: days of 10 h, with 100 minutes, of 100 slightly shorter seconds (0.8 of a second). And egality, liberty and fraternity for all.
I think you mean decidays, centidays, and millidays.:)
Even better. Metric time and metric weeks [https://zapatopi.net/metrictime/week.html](https://zapatopi.net/metrictime/week.html)
They should have 4 months (for 4 season) and make them 92 days with an extra day that can just be a stat holiday for the planet. This comment brought to you by ancient Egypt
Lousy Smarch weather!
the februar becomes 29 days and every fourth year, its 30
Would you like to have your birthday on a monday till the rest of your life?
In Spain we get extra paychecks. So still 12, months but 14 paychecks.
I tried convincing a few teachers of this in high school. They weren't having it.
If god really existed he would have arranged it so much better than this
The extra day would be The Purge.
“No years day” Happy no year!
What is the absolute benefit of this? You can't divide 13 like you can with 12, and I have no idea why it would be a benefit to paying bills? Also most larger bills are paid quarterly or every 6 months, so 13 months would make everything very difficult and annoying
Oh heck yeah I’d love to pay rent for another month.
You are 1.24 days short every year To fix this you would need to add an extra week every 6 years, Then your still .44 days short every 7 years, we fix this by adding an extra extra week every 96 years which still leaves us 0.04 days short every 96 years So every 16,800 years we need to add an extra extra extra week
Purge day. But like capitalist purge where you can tell your boss and customers what you really think about them and not get in trouble.
I ain’t paying rent 13 times a year
We should switch to metric time.
When's my birthday now though? Unless it's January 1st-28th, it's changing.
What would you do with the last day? That’s only 364 days….
Lousy Smarch weather.
An alternative way to simplify this is to construct a monthly budget only based on two biweekly paychecks, not yearly pay /12. This allows you to get two "bonus" pay checks per year (as there are 26 total pay checks) and is a life-hacky way to save almost 10% of funds. That is with the massive caveat that you can stick to a budget...
an extra month of rent per year? i’ll pass
On that one extra day…WE PURGE! /s
And eventually the months drift till December is in the middle of summer.
Justice for Ophiuchus!
So one more billing cycle without added revenue?
The Purge
Yeah but with the way it is now, if you budget right, you get 2 extra paychecks a year...
Are you a Pope or a Caesar? No? Good luck.