Calendres and Culture, part III

[hundun]

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

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[arrogant_gamer]

Hi

But, my birthday is in September, and I`m a Libra... I`m emotionally attached to the old system, and afraid of change. What would a hall callendar look like?

Your day names are kind of... practical (read: ugly). Why don`t we name them after... uh... body parts or flowers or something. Geranium of the 24th week. Elbow of the 2nd.

z.

[hundun]

Indeed, new names sound like a grand idea so long as they're easy to remember relative to numbers. Red/Yellow/Green...? Hydrogen/Helium/Lithium...?

A hall calendar could be 37 pages of ten days per page or it could fit three weeks to a page with a special page for festival week or it could do 0-4 on one row and 5-9 on the next and it could do this twice or thrice or just once per page.

As for your birthday, maybe you could be bribed?