• tetelestia@lemmy.world
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    The Gregorian calendar is pretty solid actually. Other than a leap second every few years, it’ll stay in sync for a few thousand years. You can easily calculate all leap days in a one-liner.

    365 is semi prime, so we could do a 5 day week, but that’s pretty minor in the grand scheme of things. There isn’t a lot to improve on the Gregorian calendar

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      1 year ago
      • leap days only coming at the end of the year, not in the middle
      • 5 day week
      • 73 day months
      • 30 day months with 5 non month days

      Don’t get me started on timezones

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        Time zones are an abomination of legacy design features that should be taken out back and put out of their misery… And then a functionally similar but way simpler system put in place.