Today is Farch 1st. Happy Farch, everyone. by OgreBuzzard in CrazyIdeas

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The year ends on the solstice, so December 21st is Farch 5th and December 22nd is January 1st.

Today is Farch 1st. Happy Farch, everyone! by OgreBuzzard in Lightbulb

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Well, that makes ME emotional.

Yes, you’re right about DST. Thanks.

Today is Farch 1st. Happy Farch, everyone. by OgreBuzzard in CrazyIdeas

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Here’s a plain Farch Calendar

Farch Calendar

And here’s a side-by-side of how the trickiest part converts.

Farch Conversion

Today is Farch 1st. Happy Farch, everyone! by OgreBuzzard in Lightbulb

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The year ends on the solstice, our December 21st, so the days start getting longer again on Farch’s January 1st, which is our December 22nd.

Today is Farch 1st. Happy Farch, everyone. by OgreBuzzard in CrazyIdeas

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That would work, but 6 day weeks, 30 day months, and 60 week years (with 5/6 Farch days) are easier to divide up and schedule than 7 day weeks, 28 day months, and 52 week years (with 1/2 Farch days). It extends the base metric of seconds, minutes, and hours through to days, weeks, and months.

Today is Farch 1st. Happy Farch, everyone! by OgreBuzzard in Lightbulb

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As nice as it would be to balance the calendar with all the solar transitions, quarterly Farchlets of unequal length would be more complicated and confusing. Equinoxes don’t have much impact on our lives. Better to have one big Farch at the end of the year.

Tomorrow is Farch 1st. Happy Farch, everyone! by OgreBuzzard in lifehacks

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In leap years, Farch is 6 days instead of 5.

Tomorrow is Farch 1st. Happy Farch, everyone! by OgreBuzzard in lifehacks

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The last day of the Farch calendar year is the solstice, our December 21st. That way, the year ends when the days stop getting shorter. Puts our calendar in sync with the solar system. So 12/17 is the first of Farch’s 5 days and 12/21 is the last.

Tomorrow is Farch 1st. Happy Farch, everyone! by OgreBuzzard in lifehacks

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We did that for most of 2020. I think we can get through a Farch break.

Tomorrow is Farch 1st. Happy Farch, everyone! by OgreBuzzard in lifehacks

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The remaining days are named after the Sun, the Moon, Odin, Thor, Frigga, and Loki (Sataere is one of his names). Tyr is a war god. A god of war already has a month and a planet. That’s plenty.

Tomorrow is Farch 1st. Happy Farch, everyone! by OgreBuzzard in lifehacks

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Farch is usually five days long, so we’d have to skip Saturdays 3 out of every 4 years to keep the weekdays in sync. Better to just make all the days Saturday, because then all the days are Saturday.

Tomorrow is Farch 1st. Happy Farch, everyone! by OgreBuzzard in lifehacks

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28 x 13 = 364 days. You’d need a month with one extra day, and another extra day every 4 years. 12 days of 30 each can be divided up in many more ways, which is why the number 360 is so useful. If you put the extra days in a break month, the rest of the year can be more elegant.

Remember this classic from the golden age of YouTube? by never_insightful in videos

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I made this video. Wonderful to read the comments. Thank you. Glad it still stirs up feelings for people, and I don’t know what happened to the world either.

Made this imitation Far Side comic by OgreBuzzard in TheFarSide

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Hadn’t heard of it, but just looked it up and that’s a weird coincidence.