Tantek Çelik on Nostr: 16 years ago today I wrote up and posted a proposal for a new calendar: ...
16 years ago today I wrote up and posted a proposal for a new calendar: newcal.orgHaving long been frustrated by unnecessary unevenness and other quirks of the Gregorian calendar, I designed and wrote up a more ordered, mathematically simpler, and more continuously consistent calendar.Building up from the atomic calendar unit of a 'day':* five day weeks* six week (30 day) months* two month (60 day) + a sync day bims¹* six bim years (minus a day for non-leap-years)After giving it an obvious name, “New Calendar”, and somehow getting a short speakable .org domain (newcal.org), I wrote code to do all the calendar computations and conversions.The simpler calendar computations made me realize I had invented something that would help solve a completely different problem I was working on: an efficient date-based storage format for my new blog.It‘s rare that an invention, or reinvention of something inelegant, actually serves a useful purpose. This was one of those rare exceptions.I also taught myself and have kept practicing the use of ISO 8601 Ordinal dates for my own personal calendaring, which literally gave me a new perspective of time. A much smoother and more linear progression of time across the duration of a year.Previously:
https://tantek.com/2019/015/t1/10-years-ago-today-new-calendar¹ https://tantek.com/2015/228/t3/bim-definition² https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_8601#Ordinal_datesPublished at
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