aevaI bet over on Earth 1 (our Earth counterpart over in the alpha timeline) a year is a perfect 360 days long.
We could fix this though. Throw this julian calendar nonsense in the trash, and instead do this: 360 days divided into 12 months of 30 days each. Every 3 months is a season, and then between each season we insert 1 or 2 extra days for synchronization. These inbetween season days are called "Quietus", and by law and custom most people should stay home and pretend that time doesn't exist. Quietus could be enforced by a deadly cloud emanating from the Seaslight, a giant lifegiving magical cryst
If I was in charge of a large corporation, I'd definitely be rolling into the office today to ruin everyone's day with a company-wide mandate to switch to the "Kodak Revolutionary Calendar" (it wouldn't actually be the International Fixed Calendar, it would just be a random calendar I drew up on a napkin that morning).
I think we should also throw out this "base ten time" farce, and make everything below an hour base 60.
In this malicious world we live in, the humble 60hz interval we all live and die by is 16.666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666~ milliseconds, but we could live in a better world. If we base 60 all the things, that same interval would just be 1 (whatever the sexagesimal subunit of a second is called).
I'm genuinely impressed. This joke got like 90 boosts today and not one of you corrected me about the julian calendar bit. I've definitely found my way into one of the better corners of the internet. https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@aeva/110900153447478513
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We could fix this though. Throw this julian calendar nonsense in the trash, and instead do this: 360 days divided into 12 months of 30 days each. Every 3 months is a season, and then between each season we insert 1 or 2 extra days for synchronization. These inbetween season days are called "Quietus", and by law and custom most people should stay home and pretend that time doesn't exist. Quietus could be enforced by a deadly cloud emanating from the Seaslight, a giant lifegiving magical cryst
yin yang yoink@aeva maybe you're just living on the Old Style calendar
MikeI'd just assumed you must have been posting from 19th century Russia.
An-Tim Nguyen 
@aeva at first I thought you were preaching the metric calendar, but now I see you are preaching non-decimal heresy.
Default framerate should be at 100fps let's goooo
tinspin@antimnguyen @aeva This! The rotation around the sun might be a better time than the definition we have now. Leap-years no more. I'm not sure about the degrees, ten fingers and all. Maybe make the new time global too while we're at it... US/Asia will be not so happy.
@antimnguyen @aeva I have now thought about this some more. The meter was easy, calendar is hard because non of the year, month or day align well. Moon moves at different speeds depending if it's over land or sea. All 3 are hard to sync. to anything with precision. Time will hopefully elude creatures forever because when it doesn't something will be very wrong with the solar system. I guess the best measurement of time we have are CPU cycles.
@antimnguyen well, the default frame rate would still be 59.94 Hz, and we'd still call it 60 frames per second... unless we also switched everything else to base 60 🤔
Tess
KRDL@aeva i propose this unit should be called an aeva.
Yuki Meadows@aeva there are a few examples of calling 1/60th of a second a "third" (or a tertiary) and 1/60th of a third a "fourth" (or a quaternary). An alternative that doesn't sound like 1/3rd might be a "jiffy" which, while having no formal definition, is sometimes used to represent 1/60th of a second in the electronics world when referring to one cycle of AC power
Fabian Giesen@aeva precedent would be to call it something like secminute and then 1/60th of that would be secsecond
Tom Forsyth
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mmby@aeva we could make Swatch Internet Time beats an SI unit, 1000 beats in a day!
@aeva I do like the IFC. Shame we'll never ever adopt it, just trundle along with this ropey old batshit thing that drives everyone insane.
Efi (nap pet) 🦊💤@aeva *moves Aeva from Titans folder to Pantheon folder*
Raul Portales@aeva what do we do with the weeks then? If we're fixing the calendar I would like each month to have an exact number of weeks.
Maybe we can have 5 weeks of 6 days. Get rid of Mondays.
Maybe we can have 5 weeks of 6 days. Get rid of Mondays.
@Sh41 yeah 6 day weeks sounds fine. 4 days for work followed by 2 days of rest. Or we could do 5 day weeks split 3/2
Matteꙮ Italia@aeva personally I am all in favor of the 13 months of 28 days calendar (364 days) + 1 festive year day "outside" of the week (2 if leap year), with weeks always staying aligned, but I like the extra quietus days your proposal entails.
Boba Yaga@aeva I suppose that's one way to make the year 360 days long. On the other hand, have you considered: giant rockets?
Matv1@aeva ah but then how about the 13 month calendar? Invented back in 1927 by Kodak founder George Eastman. Equally fun imho
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2014-12-11/the-death-and-life-of-the-13-month-calendar
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2014-12-11/the-death-and-life-of-the-13-month-calendar
brennen@aeva i came for the intercalary days, but i stayed for the lethal cloud.
Cassandrich@aeva I know that was whimsical, but I actually like having cycles that are relatively prime introducing variety in how things scheduled on the different ones fall relative to one another.
@dalias tbh, I'm tempted to keep the 7 day week and make some wacky hybrid solar/lunar calendar
Paul@aeva British comedian Dave Gorman did a fantastic skit on this very problem.
Dave Gorman: Why the Calendar Makes No Sense | Modern Life is Goodish
Nomi@aeva
First read that as: Seaslight, a giant lifegiving magical *cyst*
First read that as: Seaslight, a giant lifegiving magical *cyst*
@nomi naw word limit cut me off, should have been "crystal"
Dan Schuller@aeva Reminds me of Nyepi, which is enforced by the police or maybe the army, people in jeeps
Minara@aeva IIRC this is how Kim Stanley Robinsons' Mars colonists dealt with the fact that Mars days are ~40 minutes longer than Earth days - they decided that the extra time was after midnight and was "free time" - people just pretended that it didn't exist, and nothing could be scheduled then.
Keith J Grant@aeva @tylersticka Honestly that's not far off from the 13-month calendar idea (which I happen to really like but know can never happen)
Tyler Sticka@keithjgrant @aeva My coworkers are probably so sick of me bringing up the 13-month calendar. 😆️ Been obsessed ever since this 99% Invisible episode… https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/the-calendar/
The Calendar - 99% Invisible
A month is hardly a unit of measurement. It can start on any day of the week and last anywhere from 28 to 31 days. Sometimes a month is four weeks long, sometimes five, sometimes six. You have to buy a new calendar with new dates every single year. It’s a strange design. The calendar that the world uses
Dusty Pomerleau
🚲@aeva this is very close to my own proposal. I would make the intercalary days align with the soltices & equinoxes, and they would be celebratory days rather than deadly cloud troglodite days, however....
ATMachine@aeva In actual fact, this was basically the French Revolutionary calendar - 12 months of 30 days with three 10-day weeks, plus 5 extra days at the end of the year. But 10-day weeks means a lot fewer weekends so people hated it. :P
@ATM_cashpoint yeah I'd go for either 5 or 6 day weeks with two days each week being the weekend still
@aeva
Of course there were also several other good reasons for hating it:
1) they also introduced days of ten hours with 100 minutes each, throwing off everybody's sense of how long an hour should be;
2) they hubristically restarted the calendar from September 1792, making that point the start of the new Year I, and also renamed all the months, so that July became Thermidor, for instance. Nobody wants to have to deal with that much renaming all at once.
ShadowInTheVoid@aeva I'm a 13 month calender fan myself but I accept your point
👻 Feufochmar@aeva I liked that game. Still haven't finished the last challenges though.
Howard Chu @ Symas@aeva Use a deck of playing cards instead. 13 months of exactly 4 weeks (28 days) = 364 days, plus an extra 1.25 day New Years holiday. (The sum of 4 suits in a deck of cards numbered 1 thru 13 is 364.) All the months always start on the same day of the week too. Makes calendars trivially simple.
@aeva it also gives astrologers and numerologists a whole new way to do fortune-telling, with every day of the year corresponding to a specific playing card. I'll take the Ace of April...
Simon Richter
Oblomov@oblomov @aeva lunar calendars are way too complicated, a month would be something like 29-1/2 days. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_calendar
Canageek