Alternate Calenders

[Marcus Wolfe]

We claim to have advanced much as a society, but let's face it: We still base our calender on lunar months, as we have since the caveman age.

 

I propose that we adopt a 5 month calender with each month having 73 days.

 

Your thoughts?

[jojo man]

Just out of curiosity, what is it exactly about our current calendar system that you find inadequate? Is it simply that it's old or is it some other reason?

[Marcus Wolfe]

I just don't like our current calender because the number of days in a month is inconsistent.

[jojo man]

Well I've never really though about it much before now, but it does seem kinda hackneyed doesn't it? I'm not saying that I have a better way of doing it, just that there must be a better way.

 

Edit: your idea seems decent enough.

[Marcus Wolfe]

Even if people don't like my idea, they could at least rearrange our twelve months into 4 months that began and ended with changes in the seasons..............no, scratch that idea. We'd have to move the beginning of the year for it to work.

[DecalMirror]

Well, the current calender system is not so logical as it could be but why to change something the has been proven through centuries to work perfectly? Changing it even to more logical would cause only problems as we're so integrated to current system. It would be completely chaos if we changed that.

[evilkoal]

it would only be chaos for a little while though. the current calendar only works because we make it work. personally, i cannot even remember the order of the months in our current calendar system. i think that wolfe's system would be much easier to do. but then again, we have to do something about the leap year... an extra one day month for the leap year day? haha. sounds like a party time to me :)

[Vagrant0]

I'm personally in favor of the Mayan Calender. It's much more accurate than what we are using. The only down side is that it seems to end somewhere around December 23 2012, but so do some other ones (oddly enough given the relative isolation of the Mayan peoples in relation to other groups who devised calenders), so that shouldn't stop us. The downside of course is that it's probably take awhile after that for the world to switch over to a new standard.

 

Although our current calender may suck, it'd really be too much trouble to try and switch to anything else. If anything, the only reason why we would need a new system for comparing days and groups of days is when we get out into space, and time becomes alot more relative. At which point, we will need to figure out something that would keep time constant no matter how fast, or far away it traveled. In which case, I don't think a lunar, or even a solar calender would work.

[ninja_lord666]

...proven through centuries to work perfectly?

Nope. Our current calendar is inaccurate. A year is roughly 365 days, 5 hours, 49 minutes, and 12 seconds long, not 365 days and 6 hours, as the Gregorian calendar follows.

 

The Gregorian calendar is also not a lunar calendar. A lunar calendar is based off of the moon, so, for example, the first of every month would be a new moon, with a full moon right in the middle. If you looked at a calendar, you'd see the moon phases hopping around all over the place. The Gregorian calendar is an arithmetical solar calendar. It counts the basic unit of time and groups them into days, months, and years based on Earth's revolution around the sun.

As Vagrant said, the Gregorian calendar serves it's purpose; we don't really need a new one.

[evilkoal]

I'm personally in favor of the Mayan Calender. It's much more accurate than what we are using. The only down side is that it seems to end somewhere around December 23 2012, but so do some other ones (oddly enough given the relative isolation of the Mayan peoples in relation to other groups who devised calenders), so that shouldn't stop us.

 

actually, the calendar does not really "end," all of the characters just match up on december 2012 signaling something calamitous. :)

i am going to party until the year 2013 comes around, and if nothing is fckd up i will get my life on track lol.