Our #calendar* is more than 2000yrs old. Quite old for a calendar, so I decided it's time to redesign it. What would your reinvented calendar look like? 📅 I start: We can't change that a year is 365.2425 days and let's say we still want to divide them into months and weeks for convenience. But remembering how long a month is, is a bit annoying, so let's

*okay the Julian calendar is (45BC), but it only differs in leap years from the Gregorian (1582) most use today.

make them all exactly 4 weeks long, and people seem to like 7 days a week so let's stick with that. Our new month is now always exactly 28 days long (4 weeks à 7 days), always starts with a Monday and ends on a Sunday (sorry 🇺🇸 and others that start on a Sun). However, now the year has 13 months (13*28d < 365.2425d), so let's add month 0 and call it Milanuary. December is now still 28d, but there's 1.2425days missing to complete the year (13*4*7d=364d). We'll add them
(1 or 2 depending on leap year) after Dec and call them "the gap", you may say 29, 30th Dec too. But they are not part of the week, so 1st Milanuary starts with Mon again. Alternatively, you can consider the gap to be 1-2 additional Sundays after a Sunday! "The gap" is like taking a day off that doesn't count. A free day for everyone 🥳. The cool thing about this calendar is that the 5th,10th day of the month is always a Fri, Wed, and
so on. Finally you can do all that calendar maths easily! July 4th? A Thu. Thanksgiving? Always on Nov 25! Last thing to clarify: When do we start the year? On or the day after winter solstice! (First midnight after solstice to be precise). So mostly Dec 22 in the Gregorian calendar. Mil, Jan, Feb to Mar 7 (1st week of Mar) are winter, Mar 8 to Jun 14 spring (always 3 month + 1 week) and so on. Easy!
@milank very easy, yes! But a bit (too) boring, too. My birthday would always be on a tuesday. Now, it changes always, and therefore is also on holidays. Quite nice ☺️🙃☀️
@Axel_H_Schubert birthdays are 5/7 times on a weekday anyway and many people celebrate on the weekend before or after. So I don’t see the issue with that? Having birthday on a holiday sounds quite a privilege to me 😉 Or maybe not, if you’re born on Jan 1 then no one just celebrates with you because it’s your birthday …