This thread is a fantastic piece of Calendar Philosophy! I love it.

It throws a nice light on our interesting conventions on counting days, weeks and months relating to the solar and lunar calendars. Why can't the universe be more organized and ensures that the length of our year and moon cycles are proper multiples of the length of an earth day?

My proposal would be to start each year with a Sunday and end it on a Saturday. This would give 364 days for each year. The time between the last Saturday of a year and the first Sunday of the following should be given some special name and be a global holiday of one or two days length. We can then divide the year into 13 months of 4 weeks each.

I am aware that this will not solve all types of calendar calculations and the lunar calendar will not align to this scheme. It will also not be compatible with a number of religions who rely on an uninterrupted cycle of 7-day weeks or the interaction between the solar and lunar calendars.

There is also no global organization who will be able to get everybody to agree to such a scheme and it will lead to even more conflict in the world...

Which brings us back to the point where Muskovitz needs to define the current week number of the current month.

Thanks for listening to my ramble on this Friday, 13th (Gregorian Calendar), 2nd week of October 2017.

In reply to Re: I want to know the current week number of the current month by hdb
in thread I want to know the current week number of the current month by Muskovitz

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