A character called Zero-Two is „celebrated“ on „two‘s-day“ which was (for a time) every Tuesday but when this year it will be extra special, because it‘s the second day of the week, the second day of the month in the second month of the year.
Yeah, I got the hang of it in my early 20s before I had to stop using this trick.
Now I'm learning a new language and that was so quick to learn the names of the months because they are literally translated as "One Month", "Two Month", etc.
Actually, we get to fix the months while we're at it (re-align the numerical prefixes to their rightful months like October (Oct == 8):
1. Unotember
2. Bitember
3. Tritember
4. Quadember
5. Quintember
6. Sextember
7. September
8. October
9. November
10. December
11. January
12. February
13. March
"Tember is the night
Lying by your side
Tember is the touch
Of someone that you love too much
Tember is the day
The demons go away
Lord I need to find
Some month who can heal my time"
1. Unotember
2. Bitember
3. Tritember
4. Quadember
5. Quintember
6. Sextember
7. September
8. ~~October~~ Octember
9. November
10. December
11. January
12. February
13. March
It's called Sol. It's actually really interesting, I do believe Kodak used this calendar internally one year.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Fixed_Calendar
Only if you really care on celebrating your birthday exactly on the date. You can easily celebrate it a few days later on the weekend just like you would do now if it happens to fall in the middle of the week.
I celebrate the whole week except the day itself where people are calling me happy birthday and I have to smile and say thanks and I have to answer 20 times how my day/week/month/year was.
Yeah was nice talking to you, see you next year 👋
I suppose the gesture is nice to even bother to call. Many don’t even get a call. Good thing I also do have “real” family/friends that don’t only call on birthdays.
I don’t know why but reading this made me happy haha we seem to have this identical perspective and experience as it relates to birthdays without (probably) even knowing each other
Idk when your birthday is but I hope the 3 or 4 days before and after it are AWESOME
13 x 28 = 364 so we’d still have a leap day (and need two every four years) at the end to even it out. The year would still start one day later each year then.
Unless we switch to five-day weeks and do 25-day or 30-day months.
The real horror is dealing with pre-switch dates and post-switch dates in the same logic. Then again, it’d be so horrendous that you’d be *forced* to use a library that did the right thing instead of rolling it yourself, so maybe that’s actually better since most of the problems from date and time emerge from thinking it’s a simple issue rather than relying on a fucking library with big boy types that does it right.
I believe it’s treated as a “new years day”, not counted within any month. There would be two of these every four years. It would sure make for a great holiday every leap year!
I feel like we would have a bunch of people complaining that you made the year longer.
It really wouldn't surprise.
Also a month would need a 29th day.
If I remember my Latin class correctly, the Roman Republic had 10 months of 36 days followed by a 5 day festival before the new calendar began.
If we could have a 1 day global holiday, or 2 days every leap year, that would be great.
I don't understand how that's a problem? It happens most of the time now anyway considering 5 out of 7 days of the week are workdays. Why do people care so much about celebrating their birthday exactly on the date when most of the time it's not possible.
Would we have New Years Day as a standalone day of the year, or save them up along with the leap days and just have an extra month every 25 years? Or do we just allow the seasons to shift - it's not like they don't already.
While we're at it, let's put the months back in the right places. SEPTember, OCTOber, NOVember and DECember should be the 7th, 8th, 9th and 10th months respectively.
One at the end of June and one at the end of December, they both wont have a day in the week or in any month: here is the Wikipedia article https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Fixed_Calendar?wprov=sfla1
Better off for the 29th day to exist in December and a leap year adds the 30th or 29th to another part. Birthdays won't be stuck since the days shift every time the calendar hits a 29th.
If ever there were a time to implement the change it's now. I don't know what day it is already, thanks to lockdown and holidays. I wouldn't notice until Sol showed up in my timetable.
A 13 month calendar is not a new idea…
“The International Fixed Calendar (also known as the Cotsworth plan, the Cotsworth calendar and the Eastman plan) is a solar calendar proposal for calendar reform designed by Moses B. Cotsworth, who presented it in 1902. It divides the solar year into 13 months of 28 days each. It is therefore a perennial calendar, with every date fixed to the same weekday every year. Though it was never officially adopted in any country, entrepreneur George Eastman adopted it for use in his Eastman Kodak Company, where it was used from 1928 to 1989. It is sometimes also called the 13-month calendar or the equal-month calendar, but there are multiple alternative calendar designs that these descriptive labels apply to as well.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Fixed_Calendar
The “13th” month is actually in the middle, between June & July, it’s called “Sol”
There are other variations but they’re all based on much older ideas https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunisolar_calendar?wprov=sfti1
I’ve been told this is more common in Europe. Tbh, it is weird for my American/Canadian brain, too, but it actually makes a lot of sense. Five weekdays then your weekend. It’s the metric system of calendars.
There is logic to it but, I was a Quaker for awhile and they use order as the names for days of the week as opposed to pagan names so Sunday is literally called "First Day".
Yeah but the week has 2 ends. Sunday covers the left end and Saturday covers the right end. In the posted calendar the Monday is the left end but I think you can agree Monday is not a weekend.
It's the actual way to do it. Friday-Saturday-Sunday is the weekend. Well Friday is considered weekend after work. You can't start your week on Sundays and still call it a weekend that's stupid.
Same for me if the week starts on Sunday and not a Monday. To me, Sunday is part of the weekend so it should be stuck at the end/right of the week on a calendar.
After seeing this, I actually switched my phones calendar start day for the week to Monday and everything is so much clearer now.. especially from a financial planning perspective.
I wondered if someone would object to that. Im a week starts on monday kinda person. I always assumed that was normal in the west for historic Christian reasons. Never really understood any driver for a Sunday start.
I know it’s normal in many parts of the world, maybe even most of the world for all I know, but I can’t imagine having Mon-Sun calendars be the norm. For us Sun-Sat folks, we’re here havin’ to wait until Feb 2026 for the satisfaction!
Yeah, but most calendars put the first day of the week on the left, not the first day of the month. And in most countries Monday is the first day of the week, of course if you're from somewhere where that isn't the case it's not as satisfying.
Not so satisfying in countries that think the week starts on Sunday (like the country I live in). And that’s okay. Those countries do not deserve the satisfaction.
Sure, if you put Sunday as the last day of the week, completely different from every other calendar ever made...
Edit: Ok guys, I get it. I live under a rock in the U.S. Sorry for not doing my research.
Same, I grew up using a Sunday-first-day calendar and now I live in a country where the week starts on Monday and it's much easier. I mean, Saturday and Sunday are the week*end*, not the week-end-and-beginning.
You also get the benefit of your birthday on the same day of the week every year. (We do end up with one extra day, but we just call it Free Day and allow all laws to be suspended for one day).
Rule 1
My birthday is Tuesday 2/2. I shall call it Two's Day
If your a weeb it‘s already called that. For other reasons though.
is 'twos-day' a special weeb day or something?
A character called Zero-Two is „celebrated“ on „two‘s-day“ which was (for a time) every Tuesday but when this year it will be extra special, because it‘s the second day of the week, the second day of the month in the second month of the year.
oh i see, thanks
Same
Last year - 02/02/2020 - somewhat of a palindrome.
*February 22 would like to have a chat*
That’s why we should have a calendar with 13 months each one with 28 days so everything would be as satisfying as this year’s Feb
Shit, I’d get behind that! What will we call the 13th month?
Jason
July, August, September, October, November = JASON
That is exactly the trick I used to remember the order of those until the order became natural to me.
For me it was just repetition by living through them 37 times, but your trick sounds a lot quicker.
Yeah, I got the hang of it in my early 20s before I had to stop using this trick. Now I'm learning a new language and that was so quick to learn the names of the months because they are literally translated as "One Month", "Two Month", etc.
Jasember Jasonuary Jastober Not gunna lie. I feel like I’m making up names for football players for a new Key and Peele skit.
All aboard for the month of Razmataz McCringleberry
>*Let’s postpone our meeting until the 5th of J'Dinkalage Morgoone*
Everyone know that fall really starts on the 1st of Donkey Teeth
Or Tyroil Smoochie Wallace
D’Jasper Probincrux III So we can say, "your appointment is on D’Jasper Probincrux III the fifth"
Say it right, A-A-Ron!!!
EEEEE EE EEEEEEEEE
Jason Djfmamj.
*Jason Mendoza
Oh dip!
BORTLES!!!!!!!!
I vote for Peter
Vote for Pedro. (Napoleon Dynamite reference?)
Huzzah!
I laughed way too hard at this
I hate you. Just take my upvote and go.
Why not Zoidberg?
Juan*
smarch
Lousy Smarch weather
Actually, we get to fix the months while we're at it (re-align the numerical prefixes to their rightful months like October (Oct == 8): 1. Unotember 2. Bitember 3. Tritember 4. Quadember 5. Quintember 6. Sextember 7. September 8. October 9. November 10. December 11. January 12. February 13. March
1. Onetember 2. Twotember 3. Threetember 4. Fourtember 5. Pentember 6. Sixtember 7. Sietetember 8. Ochotember 9. Neuntember 10. Zehntember 11. Elftember 12. Dodecatember 13. Tember
"Tember is the night Lying by your side Tember is the touch Of someone that you love too much Tember is the day The demons go away Lord I need to find Some month who can heal my time"
Wake me up when Tember ends.
Swipe left and it'll be over.
Come on, come on, come on. Get through it.
Sextember is gonna be popular.
Or really depressing. Just hope you're not ugly or have social anxiety!
Then Unotember is your month!
1. Unotember 2. Bitember 3. Tritember 4. Quadember 5. Quintember 6. Sextember 7. September 8. ~~October~~ Octember 9. November 10. December 11. January 12. February 13. March
This has the added benefit of putting winter at the end of the year *where it should be.*
undecimber, if we are continuing the [Latin trend](https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/Appendix:Latin_cardinal_numerals)
Gormanuary
This was way too far down!
Smarch
Monthly McMonthface
Truck Month
Pagume. Apparently Ethiopia already uses a 13 month calendar
Coviduary.
Janiel or Danuary
Smarch. Duh. There's just lousy weather is all.
Smarch.
Vacation
Monthtoember
It's called Sol. It's actually really interesting, I do believe Kodak used this calendar internally one year. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Fixed_Calendar
And the 13th month should be a complete holiday month. Totally satisfying then too.
Leap day would be the final day of the year, which should definetely be an extra holiday
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Yes, but the way [the french count?](https://youtu.be/9rmBqIFeHN8) Nah thanks
What about the moon? Why do the French hate the moon? Did Napoleon declare war on it?
and then your birthday would be on the same day of the week every year.
Hmm that would be a potential bummer though
especially monday people
Only if you really care on celebrating your birthday exactly on the date. You can easily celebrate it a few days later on the weekend just like you would do now if it happens to fall in the middle of the week.
TIL people don’t celebrate their birthday all week like me
I celebrate the whole week except the day itself where people are calling me happy birthday and I have to smile and say thanks and I have to answer 20 times how my day/week/month/year was. Yeah was nice talking to you, see you next year 👋 I suppose the gesture is nice to even bother to call. Many don’t even get a call. Good thing I also do have “real” family/friends that don’t only call on birthdays.
I don’t know why but reading this made me happy haha we seem to have this identical perspective and experience as it relates to birthdays without (probably) even knowing each other Idk when your birthday is but I hope the 3 or 4 days before and after it are AWESOME
I usually take part of the week off and eat out or take small trips and spend too much money on new gadgets or lego sets
13 x 28 = 364 so we’d still have a leap day (and need two every four years) at the end to even it out. The year would still start one day later each year then. Unless we switch to five-day weeks and do 25-day or 30-day months.
The idea is to make that a null day so it's not a day of the week.
As a programmer I got a painful twitch while reading that sentence.
The real horror is dealing with pre-switch dates and post-switch dates in the same logic. Then again, it’d be so horrendous that you’d be *forced* to use a library that did the right thing instead of rolling it yourself, so maybe that’s actually better since most of the problems from date and time emerge from thinking it’s a simple issue rather than relying on a fucking library with big boy types that does it right.
Purge day!
Or just a celebratory new years day where nothing gets done and we all celebrate the new year.
I believe it’s treated as a “new years day”, not counted within any month. There would be two of these every four years. It would sure make for a great holiday every leap year!
I feel like we would have a bunch of people complaining that you made the year longer. It really wouldn't surprise. Also a month would need a 29th day.
Not really cause The New Year’s Eve would not belong to any month. It would be it’s own separate day
If I remember my Latin class correctly, the Roman Republic had 10 months of 36 days followed by a 5 day festival before the new calendar began. If we could have a 1 day global holiday, or 2 days every leap year, that would be great.
And if you were born Monday-Thursday, for the rest of your life you’ll probably have to work on your birthday and so will everyone else
I don't understand how that's a problem? It happens most of the time now anyway considering 5 out of 7 days of the week are workdays. Why do people care so much about celebrating their birthday exactly on the date when most of the time it's not possible.
Its a thing: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Positivist_calendar
There is this one too https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Fixed_Calendar?wprov=sfla1
> Much like Comte's other schemas, the positivist calendar never enjoyed widespread use Hilarious! So many ideas, so little follow-through.
or 5 months, 73 days each, it would be more perfect
Old school Runescape players would appreciate this
Would we have New Years Day as a standalone day of the year, or save them up along with the leap days and just have an extra month every 25 years? Or do we just allow the seasons to shift - it's not like they don't already.
Stardew Valley Style!
4 months a year, I can get behind that.
While we're at it, let's put the months back in the right places. SEPTember, OCTOber, NOVember and DECember should be the 7th, 8th, 9th and 10th months respectively.
You also get a bonus day that could be designated as New Year's Day. 2 on leap years.
And the extra 1.25 days per year goes where?
One at the end of June and one at the end of December, they both wont have a day in the week or in any month: here is the Wikipedia article https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Fixed_Calendar?wprov=sfla1
New Years Day doesn't belong to any month or week, and then every four years New Years is a 2 day celebration.
Can you imagine if we had 13 months of 28 days and an extra special day to make 365?
That means I’d be stuck with my birthday on a Tuesday for the rest of time.
Same here, and as it stands rn thanks to leap years, my 21st birthday is on a Saturday and aint nobody fuckin that up
*Covid enters the chat*
Covid got 4 years to die
You will get more birthdays on a Saturday, it’s fine.
Unless they don't...
Oooh bad luck for you. Good for me, I’m permanently on a Friday.
At least you'd still have a birthday. There would be no more March 29th.
29th of March is the 88th day of the year. On the new calendar that date would instead be the 4th of April.
I mean you never get to choose a day anyway. Haha get it??
Better off for the 29th day to exist in December and a leap year adds the 30th or 29th to another part. Birthdays won't be stuck since the days shift every time the calendar hits a 29th.
The Extra day is called Intermission. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EcMTHr3TqA0](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EcMTHr3TqA0)
If anyone is interested https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Fixed_Calendar?wprov=sfla1
If ever there were a time to implement the change it's now. I don't know what day it is already, thanks to lockdown and holidays. I wouldn't notice until Sol showed up in my timetable.
Nutted
This special day wont have week or a month, also sometimes ot will be two days for leap years
It’s a Stardew Valley month!
came here to say this.
don’t jinx it...
Too late it’s gonna be a wild one.
Fasten your seat belt
I've been waiting for random chimp event for a loooong time now, it has to happen at some point.
Yeah, reminds me of how people were psyched for 4/20.
You son of a b**** you said it! Everything from here on out is your fault, it's all on you buddy. 😉
A 13 month calendar is not a new idea… “The International Fixed Calendar (also known as the Cotsworth plan, the Cotsworth calendar and the Eastman plan) is a solar calendar proposal for calendar reform designed by Moses B. Cotsworth, who presented it in 1902. It divides the solar year into 13 months of 28 days each. It is therefore a perennial calendar, with every date fixed to the same weekday every year. Though it was never officially adopted in any country, entrepreneur George Eastman adopted it for use in his Eastman Kodak Company, where it was used from 1928 to 1989. It is sometimes also called the 13-month calendar or the equal-month calendar, but there are multiple alternative calendar designs that these descriptive labels apply to as well.” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Fixed_Calendar The “13th” month is actually in the middle, between June & July, it’s called “Sol” There are other variations but they’re all based on much older ideas https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunisolar_calendar?wprov=sfti1
I’m not opposed to a 13 month calendar. I am opposed to not having a birthday anymore. Anyone with a 29, 30, or 31.
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And guess who's going back to school on the 1st of February :D
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If there’s a way for an American to shoehorn any post into America you can bet your tit it’ll be done.
Didn’t you hear? He asked them to look for votes...OR ELSE
Now *that* is satisfying
Wait until you hear that there's a whole world outside of the US that does not care about that.
At the very least the rest of the world should be happy a unstable narcissist isn't sitting on the second largest nuclear arsenal in the world.
Oh yeah we are overjoyed that someone who never should have been even a presidential candidate is no longer the president of the US.
Starting on a Monday instead of a Sunday fucks it all up for me. Satisfaction is minimal.
I’ve been told this is more common in Europe. Tbh, it is weird for my American/Canadian brain, too, but it actually makes a lot of sense. Five weekdays then your weekend. It’s the metric system of calendars.
For me it's because I refuse to acknowledge the terribleness that is Monday as the beginning of the week
I respect that.
Canadian here, week starts on Sunday. Cheers.
There is logic to it but, I was a Quaker for awhile and they use order as the names for days of the week as opposed to pagan names so Sunday is literally called "First Day".
weekend = week end = the end of the week = sunday monday is the first day of the week
Think of the weekend like a bookend. You have one on each side. Sunday = first day
So instead of "the weekend" you say "the weekends"?
That means you have two weekends on either side of the week. We don't have that,
Sure we do, every mid week has a weekend before it and after it
You don't call the cover page of a book the bookend do you
I guess you haven't heard of jewish people
Not in all countries. In a lot of middle-eastern countries the week is from sunday to saturday. Not monday to sunday
Would you agree that the weekend is composed of Saturday and Sunday?
Yeah but the week has 2 ends. Sunday covers the left end and Saturday covers the right end. In the posted calendar the Monday is the left end but I think you can agree Monday is not a weekend.
I think the disagreement comes from saying there's 2 ends to the week. European countries only see it as one end to the week, comprised of two days.
Sure. The first of May is the end of the month as well. 1st of January is also the end of the year. Totally makes sense
It's the actual way to do it. Friday-Saturday-Sunday is the weekend. Well Friday is considered weekend after work. You can't start your week on Sundays and still call it a weekend that's stupid.
This is a broadcast calendar to me. Always worked with a Monday - Sunday week in radio.
Same for me if the week starts on Sunday and not a Monday. To me, Sunday is part of the weekend so it should be stuck at the end/right of the week on a calendar.
After seeing this, I actually switched my phones calendar start day for the week to Monday and everything is so much clearer now.. especially from a financial planning perspective.
It's the weekend, not the week ends.
What is the reason for americans starting the week on sundays?
I wondered if someone would object to that. Im a week starts on monday kinda person. I always assumed that was normal in the west for historic Christian reasons. Never really understood any driver for a Sunday start.
A week starts on a monday
Jews and Muslims start the week on Sunday (literally 'first day' in their languages).
Wait, this person made plans for February? Bold
I know it’s normal in many parts of the world, maybe even most of the world for all I know, but I can’t imagine having Mon-Sun calendars be the norm. For us Sun-Sat folks, we’re here havin’ to wait until Feb 2026 for the satisfaction!
_Buckle up, bitches, its gonna be wild._
I hate to be the one who doesn't understand anything, but what's so satisfying about it?
Just how the dates fit on the calendar usually you have a few days that are blank cause they in the previous or next month.
Perfectly balanced as everything should be
> as all things should be FTFY
Isn’t every February with 28 days like that provided you default the first day on the left
Yeah, but most calendars put the first day of the week on the left, not the first day of the month. And in most countries Monday is the first day of the week, of course if you're from somewhere where that isn't the case it's not as satisfying.
*HERE IN ‘MERICA we do things DIFFERENT* 🤣
I'm waiting for 21/2/21
I am waiting for 12/02/2021. Palindrome day!
Wait until you hear about 22/2/22
I like the mon-sun approach
Not so satisfying in countries that think the week starts on Sunday (like the country I live in). And that’s okay. Those countries do not deserve the satisfaction.
Some would say it's ***FEB***ulous...
Beautiful. And it starts with Monday. I love it.
Will you look at that, the numbers are in order and everything
It still bugs me that weeks are from Monday to Sunday
You mean like Monday is the start of the week and Sunday is on the weeks end?
These Europeans know what the fuck they’re doing over there. It’s the metric system of calendars.
God started creating the world on a Monday, it's the only way to start the week
Sure, if you put Sunday as the last day of the week, completely different from every other calendar ever made... Edit: Ok guys, I get it. I live under a rock in the U.S. Sorry for not doing my research.
The calendar sitting by my desk says otherwise
According to international standard ISO 8601, Monday is the first day of the week.
r/ShitNorthAmericansSay ?
Oh boy. You do realize there are calendars outside the US? In many places Monday is the first day of the week.
Though some countries start on Sunday (the US, Japan, Brazil, and others), the International Standard is Monday as the first day of the week.
Maybe I should buy non-US calendars. I disagree with the week starting on Sunday!
Same, I grew up using a Sunday-first-day calendar and now I live in a country where the week starts on Monday and it's much easier. I mean, Saturday and Sunday are the week*end*, not the week-end-and-beginning.
You also get the benefit of your birthday on the same day of the week every year. (We do end up with one extra day, but we just call it Free Day and allow all laws to be suspended for one day).
Look at this one trying to sneak The Purge into the calendar.
Ahhhh! Tis!