• Nepharoni [he/him]
    ·
    2 years ago

    Fuck the year I want two things:

    Metric time

    French Republican calender

    Metric time- 100 seconds in a minute, 100 minutes in an hour, 10 hours in a day.

    French republican calender- 10 days in a week, 4 weeks in a month, each month has a cool weather name like " snowy" . 3 months in each season and 12 months per year. 360 beautiful days each year

      • Nepharoni [he/him]
        ·
        2 years ago

        I believe it was the French tradition that they were just " extra days" .

        Just 5 or 6 holiday days in a row, party days

        • Vncredleader
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          2 years ago

          I am currently reading a book on the Terror, apparently those 5 days are not all holidays, which actually pissed people off at the time.

            • NotARobot [she/her]
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              2 years ago

              For another L, a 10 day week meant for a lot of people more work days per each rest day. Really if we want to fuck with the calendar we'll have to throw out this capitalism thing first.

              • zifnab25 [he/him, any]
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                2 years ago

                Putting on my Richard Wolff hat and proposing a system in which we identify how much we need for the year and only work as many days as it is necessary to produce that much, rather than building up a massive wasted surplus.

        • PasswordRememberer [he/him]
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          2 years ago

          The week between Christmas and new years where no one does anything, but institutionalized

          Death to America

    • came_apart_at_Kmart [he/him, comrade/them]
      ·
      2 years ago

      i want a lunisolar calendar for earth:
      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metonic_cycle

      i want to look at the date and instantly know where the sun is and the phase of the moon. it will help immensely with my astrological megalithic structure building.

      • Nepharoni [he/him]
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        2 years ago

        Well you obviously have to change how long a second is.

      • zifnab25 [he/him, any]
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        edit-2
        2 years ago

        You'd change the length of each unit. A metric second would be shorter than an imperial standard second in the same way that a centimeter is shorter than an inch.

        I still think some circular unit would be better than 10. Right now, each of the 24 hours represents a 15° rotation of the Earth.

          • zifnab25 [he/him, any]
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            2 years ago

            Definitely one of the least arbitrary methods of measurement on offer.

            But I can understand the impulse to clean up the calendar.