An alternate calendar system briefly used by republican France. It had 360 days per year with 5 or 6 “intercalary” or leap days between years. It had 12 months of 30 days, which were comprised by 3 weeks of 10 days. Every day of the year had a unique name: a common plant, animal, mineral, or tool/equipment (ie January 31 was “Broccoli” and May 4 was “Silkworm”).
YSK because it’s an interesting alternative to the Gregorian calendar and the occasionally-proposed 13 month calendar.
Though it did have some problems such as starting in late September (very unusual for a calendar) and not having a robust leap-year system.
Holy crap this is what I wanted. at least four of the intercalary days should be the solstice and equinoxes. and I wanted the weeks to be 5 weeks of 6 days per month with every month starting and ending on the same day. I would be tempted for the fifth and sixth intercalary to be after the winder solstice and call the fifth new years and the sixth one leap day or something. I figure thats sorta the main holiday time anyway.
I really like the idea of 10 days because of where weeks come from. In many languages, the names of days trace back to major celestial bodies (Sun, Moon, and the five planets). This is very obvious in English with Sunday (Sun), Monday (Moon), and Saturday (Saturn) but less obvious with other days because the names were converted into Germanic gods (Thursday = Thor’s day, though the planet should be Jupiter).
Well now that we know there’s two more planets: Uranus and Neptune, and the Earth is also a planet… it would kinda make sense to add 3 more days to the week for Uranus, Neptune, and Earth.
The actual French republican calendar just uses numbered days ie primidi, duodi, tridi similar to Chinese and Portuguese but imo that’s so boring.
yeah its just kinda long.
Yeah unless it comes with 5-day weekends 😢
I wouldn’t mind 6 days on 4 days off
6/4 sounds great. I think 3/2/3/2 is also an option, or if there’s one more work day, maybe 3/1/4/2. If only five days of work, we could try the most radical 1/1/1/1/1/1/1/1/1/1 (work every other day). 5/5 is actually pretty reasonable and maybe my favorite. It’s actually pretty workable for employers too because if you need someone working every day, it’s simple to just hire two people. Makes it easier for everybody, and doesn’t it sound great to have three 5 day breaks every month?
I think the biggest advantage to a 10 day week is really just that it accommodates more variation in schedule, and not every person or every industry has to have the same work week. It certainly helps being an even number, so scheduling anything for every other day is easier.
I’m actually so down for calendar reform but it seems like it’s probably an impossible task.
Yes I would also love a new calendar. But we can hardly come to consensus on getting rid of daylight savings time let alone a new calendar lol.
In the revolutionary context, the extra days were all piled into the end of the year. Kind of a special short month, or more realistically a set of days not in a month. But yeah, leap days were added there when necessary.
Twelve months of five weeks of six days plus five or six days at the end for Christmas and New Years would absolutely rule. As long as weeks became 4+2 and not 5+1, anyway. I say we drop Thursdays and just keep the rest of the day names, they’re fine.
Best we can do is 996 with the new 6-day weeks.
I like T/W/F more than T/Th/F but I still rather Thursday over Wendedsday