13 Months: The Kodak Calendar Experiment
Reminds me of one of my favorite posts from back in 2013: You advocate a ____ approach to calendar reform: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;qntm.org&#x2F;calendar" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;qntm.org&#x2F;calendar</a><p>Specifically (omitting a lot for brevity) :<p><pre><code>    You advocate a

    ( ) solar ( ) lunar (x) lunisolar

    approach to calendar reform. Your idea will not work. Here is why:

    (x) solar years are real and the calendar year needs to sync with them
    (x) solar days are real and the calendar day needs to sync with them
    (x) the solar year cannot be evenly divided into solar days
    (x) having one or two days per year which are part of no month is stupid
    (x) your name for the thirteenth month is questionable
    (x) the solar year cannot be evenly divided into seven-day weeks

    Specifically, your plan fails to account for:

    (x) rational hatred for arbitrary change
    (x) unpopularity of weird new month and day names

    and the following philosophical objections may also apply:

    (x) good luck trying to move the Fourth of July
    (x) the history of calendar reform is insanely complicated and no amount of further calendar reform can make it simpler

    Furthermore, this is what I think about you:

    (x) sorry, but I don&#x27;t think it would work</code></pre>