My wife Alison said to me the other day, 'Today feels very Saturdayish, yet it was a Thursday. It gave me an idea... 'What if the days of the week didn't have a name, just the date?'
Think of the extra white space you would have on your diary inserts without Monday, Tuesday etc printed on each page.
May be Philofaxy should have a range of inserts without the names of the days, just the dates! Would it mean that we no longer would have weeks? Just months?
Of course it is that day of the week to discuss anything Filofax related.
Have an enjoyable 23rd and 24th of November!
In my past employment I dealt a lot with German companies, always decent sized family concerns, who used week numbers extensively. I think the most compact day identification would be by combining week number and say of the week number. Today is 47-5 or perhaps 5-47. To save time if could be a simple 3 figure number without division between week and day of the week number.
ReplyDeletePerhaps your diary printables could be changed and someone tries it out for a few months?? Any guinea pigs out there?
However for now it is Free For All 47-5 or FFAFS-F. Next week it is FFAFE-F
BTW the missing day thing where you think it is one day on or one day previous to ther actual day is common I think. Whilst the Friday feeling on a Thursday isn't great the Thursday feeling on a Friday is great when you suddenly realise the weekend has arrived. Of course on a highly practical point. With our filofaxes this feeling must be quite rare in our highly organised, filofax life, right?
Yes the only issue I have with using Week Numbers is that different countries use different methods to calculate what week number you are in depending on the year. USA uses a different scheme to Europe!
DeleteI used to deal with Canadian and American customers and we all used the same week numbers as the German and Swedish customers. If they are different then I wonder which week number system we all used?
DeleteFortunately by then end we all used metric dimensions but that was another thing that took USA based companies to change. Canada was a funny one. Ontario they were the last to go metric but Quebec were metric for as long as I could remember. Then again Texans never went metric when I last dealt with them. I would not expect them to use metric still, they do their own thing IME. ;)
Possibly it comes from you both being retired. I’ve got friends who no longer work and they tell me that days of the week can merge into each other! I tell them they need to be better organised and plan their days more!
ReplyDelete"Today feels very Sixday-ish". Or maybe Sevenday-ish...
ReplyDeleteWe could use ten or eight day weeks again, like the Egyptians and Etruscans.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Week
Kevin
On a different FFAFS-F topic, I picked up a 1995 Pocket Windsor very cheaply, in as new condition. I think I like it even more than my kid leather Sherwood Pocket 4-ring. Leather is thicker, but it has a satisfyingly solid feel in the hand when filled with one of my field manuals. Strap may be slightly too long.
ReplyDeleteI'm not going to lie: you just exploded my brain a little. I'm about five years away from retirement, so I'm thinking about things like how my need for time management will change, but I don't think it'll change a lot. I am very *very* tied to my sense of time. I can't imagine free-forming it... I'm too much of a "Type A" personality. I still wear an analog watch!
ReplyDeleteWhat will happen to "TGIF"? I'm thinking that each day has a character of its own: blue Monday etc....
ReplyDeleteI quite like Wednesdays. That day has a feeling of fun. Partly I have a guaranteed team catch up meeting and it is between my two on site days. So very much a halfway there day but the fun comes from the chatty team catch ups. They are a good source of gossip. I have learnt that you get the best and most juicy gossip when you are not in the same room as the gossiper!!
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