I like having a New Year that coincides with the Winter Solstice, making this Day 0.

Happy Day 0 of year... of year...?

2 006? I dunno. Pegging the calendar to start four years after the ( Read more... )

Some years ago, while working on a prefeable future project for a humanities class, I got a litttle fed up with the Gregorian and worked out the basics for a new calendar; one that would be... better. By this, I mean it solves some of the more serious problems we have with ours. Plus it's like new or something.

The first and most salient problem is ( Read more... )

Other calendres ( Read more... )

One of the reasons the French revolution may have failed to capture the love of the peasants was its switch to a different calendar. It had six sixty-day months with ten-day weeks. Why would this piss off the peasants? Something to do with seasons? Not really, the 'months' were tied to growing seasons. Problem was, it gave them one day off in ten ( Read more... )