We are all used to the notion of 24 hours in a day, 7 days in a week, 4 and a bit weeks in a month and 12 months in a year.
However, what if we went decimal? I would keep the 24 hours in a day I don't think my body clock could cope with anything different.
A week would be 10 days long. A month would be 10 weeks long. And a year would be 10 months long.
Therefore a year would be 1000 days long. That means if you have been on the earth for 60 old years (≅21,900) in decimal years you would suddenly become 21.9 decimal years old.... I like that idea!
There are obvious downsides to this idea when it comes to your Filofax organiser.... suddenly a full year is going to be treble the number of pages than before! Bigger rings!
April the first hasn't come early, it is just my brain working overtime!
This is the kind of loopy thinking I have in the middle of the night when I should be asleep lol.
ReplyDeleteWould we tie Christmas to the winter solstice, or would it just follow December through the seasons? That would take some getting used to.
ReplyDeleteDon’t think we in the states could even consider dealing with decimal dating - we can’t even deal with metrics…..
ReplyDelete12 days in a week, 12 weeks in a month, 12 months in a year may be?? !!!
DeleteA decimal dating system would surely keep December as the last month of the year, October as the 8th and you'd ditch two of the others. October, November and December for 8, 9 and 10th months. January would have to stay as it's kind of ingrained as the first month. The rest for me are fair game. What's your pick to be dropped?
ReplyDeleteWe’d have no real need for short months, so I guess February would have to go. Shame though, as it’s one of my favourites.
DeleteIf the weather goes with it, I pick March.
DeleteThere was an attempt in France for something close...
ReplyDeletehttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_Republican_calendar
This is a hard no.
ReplyDeleteThe ancient Egyptians tried valiantly to link their calendar to neat round numbers, 12 months of 30 days, plus five additional days, and no leap years, and as a result festivals which had originally been linked to for example the annual first appearance of Sirius, wandered wildly over time. Like all systems based on theory instead of reality, it failed.
ReplyDeleteMetric systems aren't inherently any more sensible or rational than the duodecimal system which underlies feet and inches, years having 12 months, and there being 360 degrees to a circle. Like learning a language, a sound knowledge of both duodecimal and metric (and their origins and differences) increases the ability to run models and comprehend the strengths and weaknesses of each individual system.