A Calendar For Modern Times
Jul. 17th, 2013 12:50 pm
Often, too often, I think about the days and their lengths and the inhumane and indifferent and plain old contrary nature of the standardized calendar. It's pretty effing off the mark - especially here in Cleveland where Winter ends sometime in April, Summer doesn't really start until July and so on.
Anyhow I looked up some almanacs, I looked at the length of days based on daylight, and then I started making my own calendar - which is all about each week achieving a static number of hours of daylight. So that the weeks of winter are 8-9 days and the weeks of summer are 4-5 days. Then I figured out that if you're supposed to put in work on 5/7ths of all days - the weekends would be based upon the length of the week in that proportion and then you'd think of your activity cycle as - after your first meal until your second meal. Anyhow, I made this.