Ghastly's log: Stardate 26317.321

Drew porn today. I think my first officer wants to do me on Leap Week. Teenage girls will write stories about this. Boobie, boobie, penis.

Ghastly out.

This is what an anal-retentive calendar looks like

/calendar nerd
//next year is AG, the first since 1984

As long as the Extra Week is a free week off of work, I'm OK with this.

The USA can't even adopt the farking metric system, so good luck with that.

And still no cure for daylight savings time.

what a bunch of dumbasses

1) 12 months of 30 days = 360 days
2) 5 - 6 fill days fall between dec 30th and jan 1st

tada
no trying to remember which farktard months have how many days.
extra vacation days at the end of the year
no stupid extra weeks

/people who complain about their birthday are ignored as always
/woot, my bday is the 31st. I will never get older!!!!!

/why do tards want to make everything so logical an uniform? sigh

The calendar should look like this:
April
August
December
February
January
July
June
March
May
November
October
September


/CDO

rocky_howard: SN1987a goes boom: If you are trying to make a calendar rational, why is it necessairy to stick with the 7 day week?

Moon cycles are 28 days. Half of that is 14. Half of that is 7.

Thank you.

Which is why the full moon is always on the same day of the week, right?


Oops.

rocky_howard: SN1987a goes boom: If you are trying to make a calendar rational, why is it necessairy to stick with the 7 day week?

Moon cycles are 28 days. Half of that is 14. Half of that is 7.

Thank you.

actually 29.530588853 + 0.000000002162 days.

SN1987a goes boom: If you are trying to make a calendar rational, why is it necessairy to stick with the 7 day week?

The answer is "it's not necessary at all." The guy in TFA just apparently didn't think of it or thought it would be too difficult to change.

If we're going to get creative, I would prefer a year made up of 73 weeks, each of which is 5 days long. As far as I'm concerned, since 73 is prime, we could just name them "week 1" through "week 73" and not divide them into months at all. Or we could make 9 months of 8 weeks, or 18 months of 4 weeks, and then add an extra week at the end of the year, like the Romans did.

taurusowner: Any way to work this into the new system?

If it does ever work out...work it right back in!

I love that ending quote after arguing the entire article for calendar reform.

"What the devil difference does it make what it.says on the calendar?"

Doctor, heal thyself.

Boatmech: Commander Corn: I'm a third shifter, my calendar is farked enough as is. I can barely get people around me to understand that 10 am is the "middle of the night" for me and to "leave me the fark alone"

/does help with my drinking though

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Worked all 4 shifts - 1st, 2nd, 3rd, and swing shift. 2nd is the best for partying - in @ 3pm, out @ 11pm, quick shower and at the bar before 12am.

Doesn't seem good for partying to me but that's because the law requires bars to close at 2 AM here. I need more than 3 hours of drinking.

MurphyMurphy: actually the guy in the article explains why they had to stick with 7 day weeks.

as with most nice things we can't have, it's because right wing religious nut-jobs would freak out about it.

I think a lot of people would freak out about it. As long as you keep Saturday and Sunday in the calendar week, I don't see why religious nut-jobs in particular would freak any worse than anyone else.

Green Bastard: And this attack on my beloved DST? WTF I say. DST saves electricity by putting off the use of lighting for one hour in the evening. Over the whole grid the savings are substantial. It also allows for beautiful summer evenings where it doesn't get dark until almost 10pm this far north. FU if you can't keep it together and drive without crashing.

Citation needed on energy savings. A lot of people loathe DST and my thermostat is now confused as to what time it is. And those people who crash just might crash into you. Lots of time and money is wasted as IT departments insure their computers will update the time correctly and they require special programming for payroll systems. I know what you're thinking - we've been doing DST forever this shouldn't be an issue anymore, but trust me it is even if it's just some executive demanding that IT staff test to make sure it's going to work properly.

Let's just go on DST full time - or just negotiate earlier working hours if you love daylight after work so much.

I just said fark it this year - I've got 2 clocks still on DST. They remind me what time it should be right now.

Boatmech: Commander Corn: I'm a third shifter, my calendar is farked enough as is. I can barely get people around me to understand that 10 am is the "middle of the night" for me and to "leave me the fark alone"

/does help with my drinking though

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Worked all 4 shifts - 1st, 2nd, 3rd, and swing shift. 2nd is the best for partying - in @ 3pm, out @ 11pm, quick shower and at the bar before 12am.

Agreed! 2nd shift ruled for combining school (classes 10-2), work, and partying. All the other shifts (in the hospital) were problematic - both 1st shifts (starting at 5 am or 7 am) were just way too fricking early; 3rd shift paid a nice differential but I could never get used to going to bed at 8 am. I worked 'em all at one point or another, though.

If this guy were serious he wouldn't feel constrained by a 7 day week. What we really need is an 8 day week with three day weekends. We could wedge a Neptuneday in between Wednesday and Thursday and take Fridays off.

brainlordmesomorph: the human body has evolved for a 24 hour day. Screw with that and we start to get psychotic, (ever see the movie "Insomnia"?)

Are you sure about that? I remember reading about a study where they found people were more attuned to something like a 25+ hour day. It was a long time ago and can't find the reference and perhaps their methodology was flawed but what makes you think we're perfectly evolved for what we happened to be living with now?

I never saw that movie, but I am quite familiar with insomnia. It's 7 AM right now - I should be just waking up. Instead I've been up since about midnite after sleeping 4-5 hours. The good news is I don't think I suffer from FFI.