January 28th, 2025 (Update)
I have a proposal that must be approved by the majority of people before being implemented:
We change our 12-month calendar to a 13-month calendar to coordinate more accurately with the moon’s 13 cycles.
Our new calendar will have 13 months, with 28 days each month, and one extra leftover day.
The extra day we can use as a Holiday where we turn off most of the lights except for emergency lights and camp outside and share telescopes all night.
The extra day will be called “Space Day” or “Telescope Day” and it will change by one day every year. We should start space day in the summer and it should change sequentially by one day every year. For example, the day after June 25th 2025 will be Space Day. Then the next year the day after June 26th 2026 will be Space Day, then the next year June 27th 2027.
On Leap Years we can add the additional Leap Year day to Space Day. So on normal years we will have a 1 day long Space Day. On Leap Years we will have a 2 day long Space Day.
If a baby is born on Space Day, then we will simply give the baby the birthday date of the day before Space Day.
This idea is almost exactly like the Cotsworth Plan, also known as the International Fixed Calendar proposed by George Eastman. The only difference is that he put the leftover extra day as a Holiday at the end of the year. My plan will have the leftover extra day rotate by one day each year and have it also be a holiday called Space Day or Telescope Day.
In the far future this day might be the only day of the year normal people ever see the stars.
The only downside to this proposition that I can think of is: Its possible that your Birthday will always fall on a Monday or a Tuesday.
We would have to decide to decide if we want to start every year and week with a Sunday or a Monday.
Math instructions for how to calculate the day your birthday will always be according to my new proposed calendar:
1. Find the number that corresponds to your birthday on the Julian Calendar (Disregard the Leap Year Julian date unless you were born on the Leap Year on or after the Leap Day)
2. Divide the Julian Date number for your birthday by 28.
3. This number will be a whole number and a decimal. Make note of the whole number and then disregard the whole number and keep the decimal. (The whole number will be the Month number.)
4. Multiply just the decimal by 28 this will give you the day of the month your birthday will always be on.
5. Take this number and divide it by 7 to get the day of the week your birthday will always be on.
6. Make a note of the whole number which is the week number and then disregard it. Take the decimal and multiply it by 7.
Example: November 19th
1. Julian date # 323
2. 323/28 = 11.5357142857
3. 11 is the Month and .5357142857 is the Day of the Month.
4. Make note of the Month number 11 and then disregard it and take the day number of .5357142857 and multiply it by 28 =15 So Month 11 and Day 15.
5. To calculate the day of the week take the numerical day and divide it by 7.
15/7 = 2.1428571428
The whole number (2) represents the week number and the decimal .1428571428 represents the day.
6. To get the day of the week take the decimal and times it by 7
.1428571428 x 7= 11 represents the first day of the week (Monday). So November 19 = 323 = Month 11, Day 15, Monday forever.
One advantage of this new system is you’ll only have to do the math once and your birthday will be on the same day forever. Also, you will never need to remember how many days are in each month. Every month will be 28 days long!
Why the Calendar makes ZERO Sense | Dave Gorman | Avalon
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