Calendar Reform

[X5N]

Is it something that should be done, in a socialist society?

I think that, while not really a priority, it would be a neat idea to institute a new calendar, either simply having the years counted from a different date and possibly renaming months/days, or instituting more radical reforms like what the French Republican Calendar did.

[Ostrinski]

Meh. I don't see the practicality. How does this relate to the material conditions of a socialist society?

[Zav]

It will probably happen when less than half the world is religious, though it won't really be necessary. Personally, I think we should use a 10 month per year, 6 weeks per month, and 6 day per week with an extra five and a quarter day long week at the end of the year and use Human Era dating. It would be so much easier to use.
By the way, happy 12012 H.E.!

[X5N]

It will probably happen when less than half the world is religious, though it won't really be necessary. Personally, I think we should use a 10 month per year, 6 weeks per month, and 6 day per week with an extra five and a quarter day long week at the end of the year and use Human Era dating. It would be so much easier to use.
By the way, happy 12012 H.E.!

The "Human Era" thing is sort of silly, because it's just taking the Gregorian system and adding 10,000 years. If we're going to have an irreligious calendar, it shouldn't be half-assed.

Year 1 should be 1871, the year of the Paris Commune. :D

[Die Neue Zeit]

I'm content with a seven-day week, but part of me likes the idea of an eight-day week, for three days off and five at work or school. With the seven-day week, there should be four weeks in a month and thirteen months in a year - 364 days.

Every few years, one full week would be added for compatibility with the Gregorian calendar and solar-based timing more generally. When Year Zero should be is open for debate, though I can see sacrificial and martyrdom parallels between Anno Domini and dating based on the Paris Commune.

[TheGodlessUtopian]

An odd thing about calendar reform which takes away months would be that some people would not be able to celebrate their birthday.Wouldn't that be weird? lol

[NewLeft]

An odd thing about calendar reform which takes away months would be that some people would not be able to celebrate their birthday.Wouldn't that be weird? lol

We'll just take off July 14th off the calendar (who needs it?) and extend July 13th.. My birthday!

[Die Neue Zeit]

An odd thing about calendar reform which takes away months would be that some people would not be able to celebrate their birthday.Wouldn't that be weird? lol

Didn't folks say the same thing about the Julian vs. Gregorian calendars? Or how about transitioning back and forth between solar and lunar calendars, like celebrating birthdays in Jewish or Islamic calendars? I don't see problems here.

[Nox]

Here's an idea, how about we just keep the calendar that we have now? :P

[manic expression]

The BC-AD thing is really annoying, especially when you have to count down before "0". I think that needs to be reassessed.

[X5N]

An odd thing about calendar reform which takes away months would be that some people would not be able to celebrate their birthday.Wouldn't that be weird? lol

No need. The revolution would be everyone's new birthday. :D

[Rafiq]

What's wrong with the calander we use now?

[Die Neue Zeit]

The BC-AD thing is really annoying, especially when you have to count down before "0". I think that needs to be reassessed.

Putting on a mainstream hat, the BC-AD doesn't make sense when we now know that the historical Jesus was born between 7 BCE and 2 BCE.

[hatzel]

I think we could all come up with plenty of better ways to waste our lives...but whatever, let them do as they please!

[Blake's Baby]

We'll just take off July 14th off the calendar (who needs it?) and extend July 13th.. My birthday!

Yup. Let's take out the day that the masses stormed the Bastille. After all who needs some stupid day commemorating the poor and dispossessed striking out at the authoritarian state?

How about we take out every day except July 14th, call every day July 14th, always call our years 1871 to commemorate the Commune, and call every single person Vladimir in order to preserve the memory of Lenin?

Or even, as South Park has shown us the way, replace every noun with the word 'marklar'? Thus every day is 'marklar, the marklar of marklar, in the marklar of marklar'. That would make things really really easy. (Of course, marklar the marklar of marklar in the marklar of marklar, is also the marklar of the marklar of marklar, don't forget).

Oh, and it should be decimal obviously.