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[–] arthur@lemmy.eco.br 1 points 1 year ago
[–] Littleborat@feddit.de 0 points 1 year ago

Is it true though?

[–] TheWorstMailman@lemm.ee 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Kodak used to operate on this 13 month calendar. When I asked someone who used to work there, she was shocked that I knew about it and said that it was the best thing about working there. The original plan that this calendar is based on called for a liminal day between years for New Year's Day with 2 days for leap years

[–] Digestive_Biscuit@feddit.uk 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I work for a company which used to have 13 financial periods. It was great. Then they switched to 12 and we now have a couple of 5 week periods thrown in to balance the year out. I don't know why they decided that but it's not as good now.

[–] rojun@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm surprised they successfully attempted that and that it resulted to be taken positively. It seems as every out-of-the-norm scheduling idea is so frowned upon that even in small companies you can steer them to anything but the same ole.

I've used iso-weeks for this purpose. I don't really care for dates if I don't absolutely have to. It's nice to refer to "week 44 five years ago" in my journals. Truth be told, no one else around me uses the weeks and the only mention to it I've heard was not positive.

[–] Littleborat@feddit.de 0 points 1 year ago

Stop using weeks you annoy me!

[–] Rediphile@lemmy.ca 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

See also: Metric time.

10hrs in a day. 100min in a hour. 100 sec in a min.

[–] SrTobi@feddit.de 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Though I like the idea a lot, 60 has the great advantage that you can devide it by 2,3,4,5 and 6 which is a very useful property... The real power move would be to use the 60-system for everything... Like the Babylonians did, or so I heared

[–] jonsnothere@beehaw.org 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Nah, base 12 number system with the same logic as metric. But it's probably too late to switch to a different number system.

[–] SrTobi@feddit.de 0 points 1 year ago

Nah. Can't devide by ape fingers

[–] EyIchFragDochNur@feddit.de 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Huh am I missing something?

13 x 28 = 364 but a year has 365,2425 days

[–] NamelessGO@sh.itjust.works 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The new year day is a transition day and is not in the calendar, but rather in between years

https://theperihelioneffect.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/Ce57evjXEAAKE1h-1024x849.jpg

[–] EyIchFragDochNur@feddit.de 0 points 1 year ago

Hm i don't really see a good point for this. It's not too hard to use a calendar compared to the effort it would take the world to switch.