How would you modify the calendar?

[struggle4progress]

Poll question: How would you modify the calendar?

[Tuesday Afternoon]

1. do away with February.

[JVS]

8. Yeah, start March right after January and then make St. Patrick's day 672 hours longer.

That way April will be right where it belongs.

[applegrove]

19. I went to a University that had a long weekend in February called Monroe Day. Some

rich guy gave the university money on condition that they have a long weekend in Feb. Changes your perspective when there is something to celebrate in a month.

[Boojatta]

2. In leap years, March should begin with March 0 and then proceed to March 1, March 2, etc.

[dimbear]

3. I can't worry about this until I achieve my pet goal, getting the prime meridian some factors. n/t

[hunter]

4. I'd prefer a lunarsolar calendar with uncounted time.

You pick an annual start point, say the return of the salmon. Then you count off ten moons. Then you have an uncounted time until the next start point.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunisolar_calendar

[rug]

5. I would base it on fallopian tubes.

[struggle4progress]

6. I'm not that tech-savvy: is this the next wave after the innertubes on the information superhighway?

[JVS]

7. 12 30 day months with 2 free beer days between dec 30th and Jan 1st...

and 3 free beer days between June 30th and July 1st. Leap years will start with 3 rather than 2 free beer days.

[Kali]

9. I don't know about calenders, but

I sure wish they'd put mornings later in the day. Prettiest time of the 24 hours and it's always while you want to sleep. I think morning should be around 10.

[RedCloud]

10. 10 months per year. Each 36 days long. Then 5 days where there is party and all slaves are free.

There should be a gift exchange too.

[treestar]

11. Change it to base 10

10 months per year, 10 hours per day, each hour has 100 minutes.

:rofl:

The US would of course not go along with it.

[struggle4progress]

12. We should all support ten day months and ten month years. I've written Congress about many times!

But we'll never get it: very few people realize that the Calendar Lobby has a death grip on Washington

[Chellee]

13. The first day of spring

should be New Years Day.

January 1? Who thought that was a good idea?

[jmowreader]

14. Make every month 28 days long

There would be thirteen months, each the same length. Monday would be the first of the month, and Sunday would be the seventh day of the week. The months would be named as such:
1st month: Eins
2nd month: Deus
3rd month: Tres
...and so on; basically, the number of the month in one of thirteen languages. I'm pushin' for the ninth month to be named in Polish just to see the looks on the teabaggers' faces--"nine" in Polish is, as best as I can do with no Polish alphabet on this thing, "dziewiec.' (It's pronounced like 'jev-yench.')

The months would take up 364 days. Three years out of four, there would be one extra day. It would be called New Year's Day, as the first day of the year is now, but it wouldn't have a "weekday" name--it would come between the fourth Sunday in Tretton (thirteen in Swedish) and the first Monday in Eins, In the fourth year, there will be two extra days. The second one is between the second Sunday and first Monday in the seventh month, and will be named "World Election Day." And while we're at it, there will be a world law that says anyone who campaigns in any way for any office before the first of Eins of election year will be immediately named to the parliament of Somalia and sent there. For good.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

15. I like it!

Except I'd name the months after animals.

[jmowreader]

16. You could name the months after anything you liked...

If nothing else, it would make your finances easier--everyone who got paid on alternating Fridays would always get paid on the 12th and the 26th.

[barb162]

17. Maybe eliminate August. n/t

[The2ndWheel]

18. Just chuck the whole thing

[applegrove]

20. Don't touch a thing. If you did I would have to change all the models for time in my brain. Noooooo!

[Joe Fields]

21. I would have six Septembers and six Octobers.