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Happy 6/16 everyone

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Re: Happy 6/16 everyone

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Is this 4/20 2.0? Well, that only calls for one thing. ( ;

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It's a reference to this.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=no0qB8CVspY

Everyone knows that 6 divided by 16 equals 0.375
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^That's in base 10. Dates aren't in Base 10. In fact, dates aren't even in a consistent base, and I don't know enough about mixed-base arithmetic to convert the fraction in question to a decimal value.
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Here's a fun fact about dates.

If you took numbers out of months to make them all have 28 days, you'd have taken 28 days and could make a thirteenth month.
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Uh, no you won't. You'd have 29 days, not counting the extra time that results in the extra days in leap years.
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^Which is why the 13-month Calendar has one day that is part of no month and no week, and two such days in leap years. Makes every month exactly four weeks, means a given day of the month always falls on the same day of the week, and means we can keep our existing Leap Year rules and 7-day week. Christians, Jews, and Muslims don't like it cause it means the Sabbath would technically shift what day of the week it fell on.

Other Calendar reform proposals have included:
The 4-5-4 Calendar:
The year is divided into 3-month quarters. within a quarter, the first and third months are 4 weeks and the middle month is 5 weeks. Makes 3-months exactly 91-days/13 weeks, and as close to a quarter of a year as possible. The left over day is handled like in the 13-month Calendar.

10-Day weeks with 30-day months:
What it says on the tin. The five left over days be treated as a non-standard half-week, or...

Leap Weeks/Months:
Such proposals vary. The simplest ones make a common year exactly 52 7-day weeks with leap years being 53-weeks. Combined with the 13-month or 4-5-4 calendars, this keeps the months to an even number of weeks while also keeping the sabbath fixed, but means more complicated rules for leap year. Generally, leap-week proposals add leep week to a shorter month if months are of variable length. A leap week solution to the 10-day week, 30-day month suggestion would actually have more leap years than non-leap years(say, every even-numbered year plus an odd-numbered leap year every 40 years or so). Leap Months take it a step further, adding an entire month during leap year(this would make leap years about once every 6-years in the 10-day week/30-day month calendar and around once a generation in the 13-month or 4-5-4 Calendar).

Personally, I'm a fan of the 13-month Calendar. Very elegant plus it perfectly exploits the prime power factors of 364(dividing 364 days into 13 months consisting of 4 7-day weeks), gets rid of all that nasty math involved in calculating what day of the week a given date will fall, fixes the date for various celebrations that fall on a given day of the week(for example, US Thanksgiving would always be Nov 26 assuming Sunday as the start of the week), and minimizes what people would have to learn in the transition(no relearning days of the week, no learning which months are of which length, only one month name to learn, leap-year rules stay the same, etc.).

And while, I haven't heard it anywhere, here's a modification to the 10-day week, 30-day month that takes advantage of 365 being a semi-prime:
5-day weeks, making the year exactly 73 weeks. These can be grouped into 12 months of 6 weeks each with one week left over. The extra week can either be handled by making one month 7 weeks with a leap week added to another month once every 20 years, or we could make the year 72 weeks with a leap month every six years and an extra leap month once every 120 years or so. Also, as a bonus, maybe the week only being five days will finally kill the archaic idea of a 5-day work week.

Also, it's kind of an anti-reform, but there is the Discordian Calendar which divides the year into five 73-day months without a concept of weeks if I remember correctly.
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