why it doesn't work 85

Video starts at 1:53

if the only reason not to make a change is that it would be difficult to implement, there really is no reason at all.

No mention that 365 is a semi prime number.

for the month length question, you done even need a poem, just your hands

put your hands in fists out infront of you, with the thumb sides alligning and your bumbs being in a row on top

each bumb and the spaces between them represe a month: if its a bumb, its 31 days, and if its an inbetween space, its 30 days, expect february, but that also falls in a middle space, meaning it still works

idk if its simple, but my father taught me this when i was ~6, and have been using it since, and it works well for me

Lousy Smarch weather!

Extra month of rent was an unexpected but entirely true point.

Also this system would have a Friday the 13th every month and no more blue moons!

I've put some thought into this in the past and came up with the idea on my own before realizing that I was far from the first to do so. At first I liked the idea because it made months mostly uniform which felt less arbitrary, but having to account for the missing day plus leap years kind of defeated the point. Even worse, the calendar we already use has the seasons somewhat neatly fit into three months each, and this would be lost by adding an additional month to the calendar by evening the lengths out.

"why it doesn't work 85" Umm. But this completely works?

If we could start from scratch I'm sure we could come up with a better system, but it's beside the point as we're far too deep into the whole 12 months in a year and 7 days in a week thing for it to ever change.

Even if we ever colonize Mars, they'll probably still use some version of our calendar to keep in sync with Earth.

Agreed with some of the other comments. Your video doesn’t really make any good arguments, tbh. It’s all just “This feels weird and inconvenient.”

I heard no REAL reason why it shouldn't work, all it was is "because people got used to 12 months".
Roman dictators could add random months when they felt like and it somehow "works" now.

Solution: 4 month calendar
Syncs with the season(and less taxes!!!!)

Again, why doesn't it work?

“Dates back to the Early 20th century” bruh, Ethiopia has 13 month calendar for over a millennium

A bad video, no actual points made

If even the Us uses the Gregorian calendar, maybe it's the best alternative

The principals of Chinese traditional calendar:
1. Every month should start with a day with a New Moon.
2. Every year should start around the mid-point from Winter Solstice to the next March Equinox, also from a day with New Moon.
3. Each Month should have 30 days or 29 days to exactly match the lunar phases.
4. Each Year should have 12 Months, put a Leap Month at the end of the year if there is enough gap from the solar year.

I like the idea of a 360 day year. Earth's number of days per year is SO CLOSE to an extremely useful number, the number 360 is SO useful for how divisible it is. I would just say there's 360 days in a year with the "extra" 5-6 days being a special holiday week tacked on to the very end of the year after Christmas. Sure, you're kinda denying reality by saying that extra week "doesn't count" but imo it's worth it to be able to have such a useful number for our calendar.

12 months of 30 days each, 5 weeks per month that are 6 days long. Perfection. (I have always felt that a 7 day week was slightly too long anyway, and it's annoying that 7 isn't divisible by anything....Plus you get a 4 day work week!!!)

The end tells us why we should have only 1 month a year.........

I thought you were gonna give a scientific argument for why the calendar has to stay the same, but nope, we just can't be bothered to change it.

Worth noting that a calendar year is a tropical year, NOT a revolution around the sun. That is a sidereal year, which is about 20 minutes longer.

PLEASE make a series called "why this could work" we've had a bunch of "could but don't"

Such weak arguments and completely disregards the drawbacks the gregorian calendar 🤢🤮 has. The International Fixed Calendar IS superior by a long shot, you completely missed the advantages of it.

Obviously in 13 month years you will also get paid the 13th month so no, paying more rent wont affect it.

Everybody eventually had to switch to the gregorian calendar, now with instant communication it is easier than ever to change something

2:15 If you might not know, Mars is the "male planet". Venus is the "female planet". Mercury is ☿, Jupiter is ♃, Saturn is ♄, Uranus is ♅, Neptune is ♆, and Pluto is ♇. Earth, as well as the Sun and the Moon, don't really have astrological symbols. Instead, for Earth, a circle with a + sign is used, and the Sun and the Moon both have pictures of themselves (Sun = circle with lines coming out to represent its 7 rays, each for the 7 days of the week, Moon = crescent shape). Also, the days of the week are named after the gods that the planets of the Solar System are named after in accord to one's cultures and traditions:

* Monday = Moon Day

* Tuesday = [God of war] Day

* Wednesday = [Messenger of the gods] Day

* Thursday = [God of thunder / king/leader of the gods] Day

* Friday = [Goddess of love / beauty] Day

* Saturday = [Father of king of gods] Day

* Sunday = straightforward

This can also be reflected in many languages:

* French:

** lundi = di de la lune (di is the word for "day" in concatenation, which is why "noon" in French is "midi", which literally translates to "the middle of the day" because it is easier to say than "mijour".

** mardi = di du Mars

** mercedi = di du Mercure

** jeudi = di du Jupiter

** vendredi = di de Vénus

** samedi = di du Saturne

In Romance languages, Sunday is usually represented using a different word because it is the Sabbath day for Christians, and the Roman Empire was heavily Catholic. In French, Sunday is "dimanche", and in Spanish and Portuguese, it is "domingo" from St. Domingue. However, in Brazilian Portuguese, the weekdays are represented by "feiras" to represent the events the Pope has led, so Monday is "segunda-feira (Second Fair)", Tuesday is "terceira-feira (Third Fair)", and so on. There is no "first fair".

* In German, the days are Montag, Dienstag, Mittwoch (middle of the week), Donnerstag, Freitag, Samstag, and Sonntag. Similar to the days in English, they came from the Norse gods:

** Odin -> Dien -> Tue

** Loki -> Wed (if Wednesday had its original name in German, it would sound similar to "Lokistag")

** Thor -> Donner -> Thur

** Freya -> Frei -> Fri

** Saturn -> Sat / Sam



Because of this rule, if the Greeks kept their original names of the days of the week, Monday would be Seleimer, Tuesday would be Aresimer, Wednesday would be Hermesimer, Thursday would be Zeusimer, Friday would be Aphroditimer, Saturday would be Kronosimer, and Sunday would be Helimer.



This is because Uranus, Neptune, and dwarf planets weren't discovered until telescopes were invented, as Saturn is the farthest planet one can see with the naked eye. Uranus could possibly be seen with the naked eye, but it would be so small it would easily be mistaken as an asteroid or a comet. Therefore, in the medieval age, people thought all celestial bodies outside of Earth excluding the "heavenly stars" are the Moon, Mars, Mercury, Jupiter, Venus, Saturn, and the Sun.



Finally, in East Asian culture, the planets aren't named after named gods, but instead, named after fundamental elements. For example, in the anime world, the calendars use 曜日 to represent individual days of the week, using the corresponding element/planet. Back in the medieval ages, planets were treated as stars, which is why, the planets are literally translated as follows:

* Mars = fire star

* Mercury = water star

* Jupiter = wooden star

* Venus = golden star

* Saturn = dirt star

* Uranus = Star of the King of the Sky

* Neptune = Star of the King of the Sea

* Pluto = Star of the King of the Underworld

* Ceres = Star of the God of the Valley

* Eris = Star of the God of Evil

* Makemake = Star of the God of Heroes

East Asia usually names their days of the week in order starting from Monday being the "first day of the week", Tuesday being the "second day of the week", and so on, with Sunday literally being translated. However, in the anime world, the days of the week are named using the planets with 曜日 to represent them as days of the week, for example: Monday: 月曜日, Tuesday: 火曜日, Wednesday: 水曜日, Thursday: 木曜日, Friday: 金曜日, Saturday: 土曜日, and Sunday: 日曜日. Finally, in the anime world, rain is represented using an umbrella and snow with a snowman, unlike most of Earth, where rain and snow feature clouds with raindrops and snowflakes, respectively.



Therefore, if we want to represent days in Interlingue (a language that anyone can speak, no matter what his/her mother tongue is and how many languages he/she can speak), we will use emojis for each day:

Monday: 🌙 📅☀

Tuesday: 🔥/♂📅☀

Wednesday: 💧/☿📅☀

Thursday: 🪵/♃📅☀

Friday: 🪙/♀📅☀

Saturday: 🌱/♄📅☀

Sunday: ☀📅☀

Therefore, if we somehow switched the calendar to the 13-month calendar, the final day would be called "Yearday", as it is the extra day added to compensate for the year. In French, it would be called "cieldi" from "heaven day", in German "Jahrtag", in Greek "Aethimer", in the anime world 天曜日, and in Interlingue ⛅📅☀. The extra leap day will be called "Unknownday" and the French equivalent would be "anonymedi" from "anonymous day", in German "Unbekanntag", in Greek "Agnostimer", in the anime world 未知曜日, and in Interlingue ❓📅☀.

I mean, why don't we just have 5 months with 73 days each month?
Less monthly payments, equal month times, ect...

My strange question: why is Leap Day in February? Like couldn't we have a 32nd of October instead?

holy shit I did NOT think of that last point. jesus. I'm glad I clicked

To late, computers exist.

one problem is: how do we adjust most of humanity to the calendar we used for an entire millennium

so isnt this logic for our gregorian calendar mean were off by some amount of time? who knows how long off we are since it will guarantee accumulate over time albeit not by as much but still, at some point, our calendar will be messed up.