Calendar Reforms and Issues
The cluster focuses on criticisms of the Gregorian calendar, proposals for alternative calendars like the International Fixed Calendar, and programming challenges with historical date calculations such as leap years and calendar switches.
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You want probably this: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Fixed_Calendar
This is frankly the cal developers being cute. Nothing requires this and the proleptic Gregorian calendar would have made more sense.
All in the name of a more simple calendar
Yeah and which calender? Gregorian I assume? Hard to know for sure!
"Future-proofing for the introduction of leap months."
Worse I did `cal 9 1752` and lost two weeks
It seems the algorithm would be better optimized for humans if January and February were always considered to be the last two months of the previous year. We're already used to doing this when working out birth years for Horoscopes and the Chinese calendar. Then we wouldn't need to memorize different dates for Doomsday in Jan and Feb, and instead remember Jan 2, Feb 6, etc.
wasnt this cause by leap year and them not taking that into account?
I blame the Gregorian calendar.
[needs 1990s ASCII usenet checklist of why your calendar reform idea won't work]