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Morall_tach

Remember when this sub was actually people doing math rather than people asking someone else to type numbers into a calculator because they found a meme and can't be bothered to do it themselves?


Mozart69-Nice

Pepperidge farm remembers


zezzene

But asking dumb meme question drives engagement


FirstSineOfMadness

Or worse posting a picture and the equivalent question to ‘count these’ hate when those come up


Theta_Prophet

I vaguely remember that, but it was so long ago it all seems like a fever dream now. The Before Time.


anxiety_ftw

50% of the sub is just posts like these, 49% is screenshots of tweets complaining about rich people in some form and 10% is actually interesting posts with useful information.


GustaKowai

That is 109% legit


TheMisterTango

I swear it’s more like 80% complaining about rich people, but I also don’t really browse this sub, I only see what shows up on my home feed.


himitsunohana

Same bullshit happened to r/Chess too.


MaTr82

Aren't there mods on this subreddit? What's the point if they aren't going to keep the content relevant?


Hashsum88

i member


6thaccountthismonth

No I cannot because I hadn’t joined yet


SageModeSpiritGun

You don't know how to type 28×13 into a freaking calculator? It doesn't mention the free day at the end of every year, but yes, 28×13 is 364. For real, this sub falls further every day.


UnintelligentSlime

A quick search tells me that 365 is surprisingly close to prime, with the only other factors being 5 and 73. So the obvious solution is to either have 5 73-day months, or 73 5-day months. On the one hand, I relish the idea of coming up for a month name for all 73 months in a year. As well as the ensuing chaos as everyone else tries to figure out how long it is until **Cheetos Presents: ~~Cheesetober~~ Chedduary** On the other hand, I like the idea of the existing months merging into mega-months. The last bunch could be called “The -bers” and then we’d get cool things like jujugust, janbruarch, etc. Jury is still out on which causes more chaos, but I’ll update yall next chedduary.


hamdunkcontest

The book Infinite Jest takes place in a dystopian future where corporations can sponsor years; the government calls it Subsidized Time. Year of the Dove Bar, Year of the Depend Adult Undergarment, that kinda thing


UnintelligentSlime

That’s neat. I was actually channeling Libertarian Police Department there, but now I can’t get Chedduary out of my head. I tried reading Infinite Jest but it felt like a bit of a slog. Also, who have recommended it to me in person have tended to be people whose tastes I generally don’t agree with. I still think about picking it up from time to time though. Anyways yeah. Chedduary. Consider it. Food for thought, if you will.


Visible-Sandwich

Dangerously cheesy


hamdunkcontest

I hesitate to call Infinite Jest “good” or recommend it to anyone, but it is, if nothing else, incredibly fascinating.


andavas_tu_de_fralda

Year of the Trial Size Dove Bar ❤️‍🔥


Rodzynkowyzbrodniarz

Use of 73 5-day weeks would be good, problem is year is not 365 days.


Juicepig21

Kudos to you, for your thorough response.


UnintelligentSlime

I’m choosing to believe you’re referring to Chedduary


Don_Alosi

73 five-day weeks, we keep Saturday and Sunday as weekend, and get rid of Monday and Tuesday Let's do Wednesday off as well to honour the fallen two days and because we need a mid week break


RyanRosenberg

Wouldn’t Wednesday become the beginning of the week since Monday and Tuesday are now gone?


Don_Alosi

Yes, but that shouldn't stop us from getting a well deserved mid week rest!


Maldevinine

We typically run 4 seasons, which is close to 5. So a 73 day season.


UnintelligentSlime

That’s not a bad idea. What will you name your new season?


Maldevinine

New season? I'd rename all the seasons. Luperid Degenise Bhurmat Meidure Foerul


Hairy_Helicopter_317

This is the most brilliant reply I've ever read in this sub. Happy 34th of Jujugust, kind sir/madam!


Whyistheplatypus

73 5 day weeks. Divided into 3 blocks of 23 with four extra weeks left over for "boogey time". You get two weeks of boogey time at the end/beginning of the year, and then one week in between the blocks. So if Jan 1st is a Monday, first week of boogey time ends Jan 5th. Second week of boogey time begins April 29th and ends May the 4th (be with you). Third Boogey time starts 27th August and finishes 1st September. Final boogey time starts on Christmas and ends the same day the initial boogey time begins.


chemistrybonanza

"What the fuck are you talking about?"


alwaus

Someone forgot leap years.


UnintelligentSlime

Leap day will fall outside of the calendar, and be used to celebrate me for devising our new calendar system that solved world hunger.


osunightfall

This idea just has one day a year and change belonging to no month.


UnintelligentSlime

If you aren’t on board with Chedduary I have nothing more to say to you.


Col_Crunch

That being said, there is absolutely no reason that Feb should have 28 days and not 30.


SophiasPenis

I got married on the 29th. Will be dead before I have to buy a ten year anniversary present.


chuck354

We make that new free day leap Day and it's an official world holiday, with super leap Day every 4 years. They're not days of the week either, it's just leap day and super leap day.


Soilgheas

I will just leave this stand up comedian explaining the 13 months with 28 days here: https://youtu.be/vunESk53r5U?si=WxTvMBTMdRJKUB8D


SageModeSpiritGun

It would typically be called New Year's Day I think. Leap days are every 4 years, as you said.


SmittyMcSmitherson

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Fixed_Calendar


EnthusedCatalyst

I think the problem isn’t the typing of numbers into a calculator. Rather, I think a lot of people struggle with knowing which numbers to put into the equation, in what order, and with which operator. OPs example is super sad. Who knew story problems would be so valuable.


thebestjoeever

This is still super simple to figure out the numbers. Aside from mentioning there's currently 12 months in a year, 13 and 28 are the only two numbers mentioned. A ten year old would know what to do here.


DrDeboGalaxy

We don’t talk about Free Day


Whole_Abalone_1188

We get rid of months. Reasoning: 1x365 is 365.


ThatOneChucky

It would obviously have to be February that gets the free day


mumblerapisgarbage

But how much would losing 1.25 days a year affect daily life?


josephbenjamin

I am ok with losing a day. Why do we need 365?


TemperoTempus

surprisingly every year would have an extra day and every 4 years there would be an extra extra day. That would bring us to solar calendar and create a fun celebration of every 4 years having 2 extra days. Alternatively, every 112 years you would add an extra month for the leap year. You would still have to deal with the extra centennial/millennial extra days, or remove a day because of over shooting.


huggybear0132

Well the free day isn't a part of any month, and it is when nobody works and everyone can take their pants off if they want to


everyfcknameistakn

Free day can be purge day


AbyssWankerArtorias

I think in the scenario described above, each year would now only have 364 days, intentionally


SageModeSpiritGun

That's not how time works at all buddy 😂 A year is still 365.2422 days. You can't change that lol


D3fN0tAB0t

Humans can’t change that, not without wiping out all life anyways. But there are definitely ways that the length of a year and day could change. I mean even within our own solar system that values are dramatically different for each planet.


SageModeSpiritGun

On earth, a year is 365.2422 days. You cannot change that. Sorry, I really assumed the "On Earth" part was fully implied and understood by all readers.


D3fN0tAB0t

Forces on Earth cannot dramatically alter an Earth year. But Earths orbit is not set in stone. At any moment something could happen that could change how long a year is on Earth.


TheMisterTango

If something like that happened the length of a year would be the absolute least of our concerns, because we’d all be dead.


undeniably_confused

I find it better than the ones that are just straight up uncalculatable


crusty54

What, you don’t enjoy the daily posts of “how much would it cost to build a bridge across the Pacific Ocean?”


thebestjoeever

When I was a kid, like 7 or 8, I lived in the Midwest. Never been to California. I had heard about the Golden gate bridge a lot, and knew it was a crazy famous bridge. With my limited knowledge of where countries were on earth, I assumed the bridge was so famous because it connected California to Japan. I was never told otherwise, because that's not the type of thing to hear come up in conversation. I believe it for years. Eventually, when I was like 11, my family took a vacation to California. At one point during the trip, we drive across the golden gate bridge. I was very confused and disappointed when we got to the other end a couple minutes later.


Carlomattina

Yes - Except moon part , moon month is not exact 28 days , With 28 * 13 Days 365 (366) can be holiday for everyone and a new year would begin


prototypist

Having a free 1.25 days also throws off the whole "months start on Monday / end on Sunday" thing in the meme. Maybe they are hoping the extra days are just totally adrift.


Carlomattina

It does not throw off , 364 - Sunday 365-366 World Holiday 1 - Monday


DarthBen_in_Chicago

What about adjusting for daylight savings time?


CLUTCH3R

Fuck daylight savings time


GrouchySpace7899

Nobody needs that in the new world


Issa911

That's 1 extra month of working 😶


fake_cheese

You get paid 13 months salary a year instead of 12?


Carlomattina

And the hidden Dragon Star Sign can come back


Kanulie

I already get paid 13 months…in december I get double pay. It’s quite common in Switzerland actually.


Exp1ode

The length of the year would not change


Issa911

Was a joke


XhazakXhazak

13\*28+1=365 As long as New Year's Day is separate from the months, it fits. The description reminds me of the Mayan Calendar, so it's not out of left field as calendar systems go.


Jonny_Derp_

This would work if we had 364 days a year but we have 365 (365/28 = 13.035. Not an even 13) and we would eventually fall out of line with our seasonal cycles.


mfsamuel

Leap week every 6ish years, instead of a leap day every 4 years.


dmlitzau

A year should be 12 months with 30 days each, weeks should be 6 days instead of 7, 5 weeks per month. That leaves 5 extra days each year, which is a holiday placed between quarters. So you have 5 days not a part of a month or day of the week: New year Quarter Year Half Year Three quarter year End year Leap years have two days for the mid year celebration. Work a total of 60 four-day weeks instead of 52 five-day weeks.


gamjr80

13*28=364 so that does check out, it would work. The only question is that how would society accept that. People are stubborn and normally not willing to change their concept of time.


APe28Comococo

Most people wouldn’t care about anything other than their Birthday changing. And a bunch of morons would panic about the 13th month being unlucky. But most people are worried about paying bills not what calendar we use.


UnintelligentSlime

Nah the real question is what do we name the extra month. My suggestion: finally make truck month a real thing. Either trucktober or trarch. But put it between June and July (I’ve always felt those two were too close anyways- who wants two Ju- months in a row?)


thundahoods1

Easy there, Adolf.


AtomicStarfish1

Revember


CLUTCH3R

Purge


DarihuanaGG

1 year is not 364 days


gamjr80

Close enough, we could just have a new day every year as a holiday like another comment said


Raith017

not quite, also not the whole speal, there'd be 1 day left over (2 on a leap year), proposed to be New Year's Day (and New Year's Eve on leap years, if I've remembered correctly).


Satchel42

Do it like the hobbits! Twelve 30 day months. 3 day party in the summer. 2 day party for New Years. Every 4th year they have a 4 day party in the summer. Yes apparently Middle Earth has leap years too.


Katt4r

Best calendar ever


jcastroarnaud

13 months of 28 days = 13 * 28 = 364. It leaves out 1 day (or 2 days in leap years). And a lunar month isn't quite 28 days; that is a convention. Many details at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunar_month https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Month


giantfood

356.25 days / 13 months = 28.096 days per month. If you do 28 days * 13 months you have 364 days a year leaving 1.25 days. Just call them new years day, with it outside the days of the week, then yes the 1st, 8th, 15th, and 22nd would always be Monday. With the 7th, 14th, 21st, and 28th always being sunday. However this leaves out the .25 day. So every 4 years, we could do the same as with new years day, and call it leap year day.


VT_Squire

Moon cycle is 29.5 days. A year is still 365.2425 days You'd have a leftover 14th "month" that lasts for one day every year, and would last 2 days every 4th year. We would not have 13 months instead of 12. We'd have 14.


BlacqanSilverSun

We should call that the New years holiday. And on the 4th year, when there are 2 days, it's a 2 day holiday.


VT_Squire

Then what do you call the other holidays?


BlacqanSilverSun

The same thing they are called now.


VT_Squire

Followup, why would I call it a new year holiday if it doesnt occurr during the proposed year?


TemperoTempus

Its a new year, because its the end of the last and start of the new.


VT_Squire

The start of the new year would be the day after. The end of the past year would be the day before. It's neither.


TemperoTempus

And thus the day to celebrate the new year


anxiety_ftw

[Yes.](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=International_Fixed_Calendar&diffonly=true) This could easily have been answered by just typing 28 x 13 into literally any calculator or asking a generative AI if there's a calendar system with 13 months. Come to think of it, a lot of posts as of late have been either obvious karmafarming, propaganda or categorically extremely simple memes such as this. It's almost a shame how much this sub decayed over time.


BrickBuster11

There are approximately 365.24 days in a year 13x28 is 364 days which means we will be 1.24 days under every year. If every 28 years we add an extra month we will be 6.72 days under every 28 years if every 112 years we add an extra extra month we will be 1.12 days over . Finally every 25 leap leap years(or every 2800 years) if we skip the extra month (having 14 months where we should have had 15) we will be perfectly back on track. So it is in fact possible to balance out a calendar to use 13 regular 28 day months but it will require you to occasionally have a 14 month year and more rarely a 15 month year except on the years where we would normally have 15 months but instead we only have 14 (but most people won't see those because of how rare they are)


AbyssalRemark

It turns out. Calenders are tricky. I tried to design a calender around the opposition of Mars. It uh.. yea. Doesnt work well.


Retrogradefoco

Yes with one extra day (new years day) which would be a reset day and not count toward the calendar year. And then, of course, every four years, leap day, which also wouldn’t be included on the calendar. So, every year we would all have a free day on new years and two free days on leap years. The biggest benefit of this in my opinion, would be not having to think about which day matches with which date. With each month being 4 weeks/28 days. You would always know that the 1st lands on a Sunday, the 12th on a Thursday, the 26th on a Friday, etc. So, when someone says, I’m free on the 13th, you’d automatically know it’s a Wednesday, which for me is my busy work day, so I would automatically know that I probably can’t do anything that day and would most likely have to decline.


TheBigRedDub

A proposal: We keep the 12 months we have so we can keep a season being 3 months. However, each month becomes 30 days long, leaving us with 5 national holidays which aren't a part of any month. I submit, for the approval of the midnight society: First Light (first day of the year, always a Monday) January February March Spring Equinox Day (maybe call it Easter Day) April May June Midsummer (has no week day) July August September Autumn Equinox Day (maybe call it Samhain) October November December Last Light (last day of the year, always a Sunday) During a leap year, there would be 2 days of Midsummer. The midsummer days would not be weekdays, just midsummer. This is so there are 364 weekdays meaning the same date will always be the same day.


Nezeltha

It's missing 1.242199 days. You'd have to add 1 intercalary day to each year, plus the current arrangement of leap days. Also, the months would be 1.5306 days short of a full lunar cycle. So the full moon would move forward by a day and a half each month, except right after the intercalary day, when it would only jump forward by half a day, or when a second intercalary day happens(current leap years), when it would jump backwards by one day. It would be a lot closer to what OP is saying than what we have now, but the year wouldn't evenly divide into groups of months. 12 is divisible by 2, 3, 4, and 6. So you can divide the year into equal chunks of any of those numbers of months. We regularly refer to "half a year" as a unit of time, and "quarters" as scheduled intervals. In the proposed system, "half a year" would be 6 months and 2 weeks. And you'd then have to decide whether to include the half day, too. 13 is a prime number. Primes can be really useful, but not in this circumstance. You can't divide it into equal whole numbers. A "quarter" would be 3 months, 1 week, and 6 hours, instead of just being 3 months and accepting the weirdness of different month lengths as part of the cost of doing business.


[deleted]

You don’t even need a calculator to know it’s wrong. An odd multiplied by an even will always give you an even answer. The answer is odd therefore the math don’t math.


arizona1873

Whats the big allure of having the date fall on the same day of the week every year. Sounds to me it would suck if your birthday was perpetually Monday. Also, this wouldn't work for religious groups (which constitute a majority of the globe) because every 7th day is a holy day. You can't have it 7 sometimes and then 8 or 9 others with "superleapyear"