• Mubelotix@jlai.luEnglish
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    10 months ago

    France tried such calendar in 1789 and 1871. We lost it when Jules Ferry executed all the communalists in Paris. Some people in France still use those calendars to show their support to revolutionary ideas

  • Flax@feddit.ukEnglish
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    10 months ago

    Wouldn’t it make sense to have the 1st be a Sunday and 28th be a Saturday?

    • heleos@lemm.eeEnglish
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      10 months ago

      I used to think the same, even made fun of friends and family for setting calendars to start on Monday, but then I tried it and found the light

  • RegalPotoo@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    10 months ago

    As a software dev who has lost weeks of his life dealing with timezones, leap days, daylight savings time, date math and other associated nonsense I fully support this being the way the world is. I don’t want to go through the transition to get there though

    • AlligatorBlizzard@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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      10 months ago

      We could all unionize and just take the first month off, set it in the deepest part of winter, January or so, and just set Christmas to be during that month. Although people might not be thrilled to move Christmas to after New Year’s.