As a person living in Japan where they change the name and the numbering of the years with every new emperor, I guess my question is, when do we start using your system?

I know this was done as a joke but I think there is a lot of truth to this. Everything would be the same date wise. Councils charge you rent by the week and there are 13 x 4 week segments to the year. If you were paid monthly on the same date that would make paying bills a lot easier, no more 5 week months. Personally, I believe this should become reality.

Please let's adopt this calendar immediately. It would be weird for a couple of years but like an update for your phone you'd eventually get used to it and wonder how you used that old Callander with its chaotic structure for so long. This is absolutely brilliant.

In fact, during the time of the Romans, the year started on March 1st. This is also the reason why February is the shortest month (it was the last) and why October - December got their name.

Funny thing is the old Icelandic Calendar used to have a month called "Gormán-uður" basically "Gormonth".

This is actually very elegant and makes a lot of sense. It would be fantastic during leap year: 4 straight day off - the two weekends and the two intermissions!

I wish we could implement this correct calendar.

There’s already a thirteenth sign, astrologers just ignored it because of the superstitions surrounding thirteen.

What about the children that are born on "intermission"? How do they keep track of their birthdays?

Best way to introduce a better system is with humor. I'm still waiting for the duodecimal Chappelle Special.

Yeah ive actually thought about this too. Intermission would be hella hype

God gave us the map to the calender on one of the longest living creatures on earth. The turtle's back. It has 13 sections and there is other stuff I can't remember all of what I learned except sometime near 400 AD Rome changed the calender to suit themselves and shortly thereafter Rome fell apart...

Still 13 months are in a year, 6 months have 3 extra days that's 3X6 =18 days plus another 5 months have extra two days that is 2X5 =10, 10+18= 28. The 13th month had its days divided into each of the months except February. Because February is the month before the first month. That is March.

"Nail easter down" 🥵

Im totally on board with this!! 🤣 this works on so many levels

I absolutely love this, but for the single reason that I love the concept of intermission being a thing. Like, i can imagine saying things like "we met on intermission 2027" or "where did we spend intermission 2027 again?" and random things like that. I find it incredibly interesting and I'd love to give it a go 😂

I did the math and, since I was born on a leap year, my birthday in the new month system would be the 1st of Sextilis.

"In the new system we'll "nail" easter down." Wow! Lol he went there.

I see a small problem with that approach. 13 is prime so we can't have half a year, a third of a year or a fourth of a year. I agree that 13*28 is closer to the real 365 days/year but the advantages of having a 360 days/year with 5 or 6 intermision days. 360 days/year would give us 6 days/week, 6 weeks/month and 10 months/year with 1 intermision day every 2 months. as a plus, with this calendar I propose, we have 6 days/week (you work 4 days and take a 2 days weekend)

Brilliant - I worked out this exact solution 13 months x 4 weeks of 7 days, plus an Extra Day and leap year's Extra-Extra Day. I would prefer the new year to start after the winter solstice, (shortest day) usually the 21st December (22nd in leap year). So the next day could be the extra day, maybe call that Day Zero, (in a leap year have a Day Zero plus a Bonus Day). With the new year's 1st month starting the very next day - but keep the order of month names as at present, to limit confusion. Any extra days will each cause a single jump backwards in day name for the first day of the new year, compared to previous year, then stays consistent every month for that whole year, eg 1st January and 1st February etc will be same day name eg a Monday.

Let me add something here. For the sake of consistency they should be Quintember and Sextember))

There used to be 13 months. 13 constellations.

If I'm ever gonna become a politician, I'm so gonna introduce this.

That was so well done!

You've sort of got the idea, our calendar is wrong and there should be 13 months that track the moon.

Isn't easter on the full moon on or after the vernal equinox? This calendar won't nail it down, since lunar calendar will keep getting out of sync with this.

Lmfao Gormanuary is gold

🔥🔥 Ethiopian Calendar 🇪🇹 🔥🔥 The Land of 13 Months of Sunshine 13 Months = ( 12 x 30 Days) + (1 x 5 Days/ 6 Days every 4 yrs)

this man should explain why the week should be 8 days long rather than 7

Have you considered the seasons? How would they be affected?

Adam Wexlar advocates using March 22nd as New Years Day as it is the start of Spring

Cool ideas will pop up from time to time. The founder of Kodak Eastman spent a lot of time to make the world adopt this type of calendar around 100 years ago. Maybe it is an idea whose time has come? It would make things a little more coherent.

I think for this reason God said don't bother with astrology.

I kinda dig it, but there's a downside to it. Imagine having your birthdays always on a monday

What day of the week really matters when celebrating your birthday. everyone born on Fridays and Saturdays would be able to celebrate easier on the actual day whereas everyone else would have to take a day off work and move their party to the weekend.

What a brilliant presentation 🎉❤

people laugh but it makes total sense

The first day of the new year should actually be the day after the winter solstice when the days start to get longer. Which would also be Christmas. Christmas was originally a celebration of the "Suns return" or "christ's return".

I actually like it! Makes more sense than the current calendar. Tough I will miss having birthdays in January.

So you'd propose March 1st would be used to old-January 1st? Or do we move new year celebration to March and leave the months were they are in terms of the seasons? Will Christmas still be in winter?

The Bible says they changed time and times.

Thanks. Forgot how good Dave Gorman is. Gave up on tv years ago.will never fund bbc again.

Brilliant and informative

We used to go off of a 13 month calendar.

The Essenes had a calendar like this.

Can some plz explain how April 1st is the 91st day of the year, I'm a little confused.

28 day cycle for females....

Not Comedy All facts

How about instead of intermission we call it purge?

Everyone is owed a extra month's wages!

So when does April first actually start? Is it spring equinox? Or something else

LET'S DO IT!!

This is scriptural. Well played.

They really need to go to a metric calendar with ten months of ten days each.

Sol is 13th month !!!!!! But well done its not bad job

Brilliant

My Agikuyu culture have 6 months,IN KENYA, PLANTING SEASONS, BASICALLY ENOUGH,

Intermission has no date. Just imagine your friend asked... When u born? I was born in intermission. Man...🥶

Now what about the decimal clock? 1 day = 10 decidays (or Gorm-hours) 1 deciday = 10 centidays (or Gorm-minutes) 1 centiday = 10 millidays (or Gorm-seconds) 1 milliday = 10 Gorm-thirds 1 Gorm-third = 10 Gorm-fourths 1 Gorm-fourth = 10 microdays (or Gorm-fifths) etc...

This dude rocks

The numbers for a month still don't make sense because April used to be the beginning of the year hence why we call April 1st April Fools Day because people were still doing the beginning of the year in April.

13th sign is ophiacus

Blame Julius Caesar since he added 2 months. Original colanders before that were 10.

is that 13 rent payments, Electric bill payments, car payments, ect, If the government could make us pay more taxes by adding a month they would.

So how many seasons are in a year? 4, 3 months each to divide up the year. ... well we just made a 13th month what do we do? Tf did we make an odd number of months for?

12 months because of money. If a worker is paid a salary 11 months are 30 and 31 days. 4 months are 30 days. 7 months are 31 days. You work longer for the same pay. It was always a financial decision deep down and those with money make the decisions and ultimately to benefit themselves. 😂

This legit makes sense 😂

This is just as brilliant as funny!

Love it! 😂🩵🌻

Just use the Ethiopian calendar, 30 days for 12 months and the 13th month have 5 days and 6 days every 4 years

This actually makes sense, and as all the crazy people have shown us in the last couple of years it doesn't take much to get movements going, only this would be a useful one.

Makes sense to me .

What about the people who will be born in intermission... and most importantly on the 2nd intermittent day which comes once in 4 years.. Should we ignore them just as we ignored those days?😂

My old birthday: Oct 1 My new one: Dec 22

Moon Calendar... 🌙 🌚 perfect.

Would the 13th month that got added go in between june & july

Romans changed the months when they went from ten to 12 months. Long before July and August were named.

Jesus plus 12 deciples equal 13.

Hmm, moon has a 28 day cycle, so that calendar would give you the ability to look at the moon and know which day of the month it is. :)

Is it just me or is this actually genius? 🤔

It just makes so much sense

The premise of this entire thing is incorrect. Juli and June were not inserted in the middle. They simply added names to months previously just known by their number. The problem was that winter wasn't initially included in the calendar because there was no farming or whatever during winter. Later on they decided the calendar should cover the entire year including winter so they had to chuck a couple of months onto the beginning of the year (and I suppose to the end as well I don't remember the details) Edit: I absolutely love the idea of the new calendar tho. I've come up with this exact system myself along with some others just for fun and this is by far the best one. Too bad we can't fit the lunar month into it tho as it doesn't line up with the year 🤷

Nothing new under the sun. He got only one important thing wrong: the new year naturally needs to start at spring equinox, so yoh cannot count the dys like he did.

France tried to get rid of it at some point, we ended up with something called the "calendrier révolutionnaire". Try looking at that now XD

So Saturday birthday people are happy forever and everyone else gets the short end? No thanks lol

I was wonedering when we got back to where we were.

Well Nailed 😂

My birthday will remain in the 5th Month from 13th May to 21st Quintillis, which will always be a Saturday

Idea: the tiny calendar. The whole calendar is just the 7 days of the week. Let's say you are planning a wedding, so you tell all of the guests that the wedding will be three days long, and it will happen on a future Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday. So the guests write that on their tiny calendars, while making their own future plans for the other 4 days in the meantime. Eventually the wedding plans are finished, so you tell the guests, and they go to their tiny calendars and move the future wedding dates onto the current week. Also, since it would be bizarre and rude to give the guests less than four days notice, and this would be equally true of most future plans, their plans for the current week would be mostly unaffected during this whole process.

The Simpsons already named the 13th month. It's called Smarch. 😅😅😅😅

your birthday would still be the 2nd of march, and the birthday of someone born the 29th of march would be the first of april and so on

Next let's get rid of daylight savings time. Please!

Lol, This is actually genius. 😂

We should do this.

What about leap years? Do we just have a double intermission?

Augustus Octavian

He didn't get to the obvious...the 28 day menstrual cycle. A 28 day month would cut down abortion rates through easier to remember cycles. The down side...the entire world would eventually end up psyching at the same time and the suicide rate of men would be very high and always be on the last week of every month.

The truly enlightened ones know exactly why….. iykyk New Year’s Day used to be April 1st. April FOOLS day

Main difference being, with the rest of the world the week begins on monday not sunday, so with this system you are never ever going to get a friday the 13th

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