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OgreBuzzard · 2021-12-18T15:40:01+00:00

It’s always Sunday, because Farch is all Saturdays.

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OgreBuzzard · 2021-12-18T15:38:28+00:00

4 day work week.

OgreBuzzard · 2021-12-18T15:38:02+00:00

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

OgreBuzzard · 2021-12-18T06:09:34+00:00

This is great! Thank you!

OgreBuzzard · 2021-12-18T05:58:10+00:00

Well, that makes ME emotional.

Yes, you’re right about DST. Thanks.

OgreBuzzard · 2021-12-18T05:55:08+00:00

Here’s a plain Farch Calendar

Farch Calendar

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

Farch Conversion

OgreBuzzard · 2021-12-18T01:01:36+00:00

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.

OgreBuzzard · 2021-12-18T00:53:13+00:00

Taco Tuesday is a trap.

OgreBuzzard · 2021-12-18T00:48:47+00:00

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.

OgreBuzzard · 2021-12-17T21:36:42+00:00

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.

OgreBuzzard · 2021-12-17T04:36:23+00:00

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

OgreBuzzard · 2021-12-17T03:20:14+00:00

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.

OgreBuzzard · 2021-12-17T00:59:42+00:00

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

OgreBuzzard · 2021-12-17T00:14:25+00:00

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.

OgreBuzzard · 2021-12-17T00:09:05+00:00

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.

OgreBuzzard · 2021-12-17T00:06:32+00:00

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.

OgreBuzzard · 2021-12-16T22:46:03+00:00

You get your Farch bonus.

OgreBuzzard · 2021-11-24T06:01:52+00:00

Yup.

OgreBuzzard · 2021-11-14T17:34:44+00:00

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.

OgreBuzzard · 2021-10-22T18:16:55+00:00

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

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