I'd pull out 'July' and 'August', move everything else up two spaces and put 'July' and 'August' at the end.
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You are queueing in a line. But You 31st, need to wait so long! So frightening, like Halloween.
I tried my best. You could probably do something with Me 25th as well.
Tim.
All of them are Tim.
In which language, English? Though why would renaming them in English require the approval of everyone in the world?
I'd say you don't even need the approval of everyone living in an English-speaking country. It's not like the US and UK use all the same words, for example. I think it's fine for one English country to unilaterally rename them, no need for wider approval.
I would remove names. Many languages don't have separate names and work just fine (Japanese, for instance)
* technically Japan has month names, but no one uses them at all in daily life. My wife can't even list them all right now, heh.
No love for the French Republican Calendar months?
- Pluvose
- Ventose
- Germinal
- Floreal
- Prarial
- Messidor
- Thermidor
- Fructidor
- Vendemiaire
- Brumaire
- Frimaire
- Nivose
People who know their Latin roots might know what these months are named after, but here's a guide:
- "pluviosus", meaning "rain"
- "ventosus", meaning "windy"
- "germen", meaning "germination" (of a plant)
- "flos", meaning "flower"; or "floreo", meaning "blossom" (of a flower)
- "prairie" (field)
- "messis", meaning "harvest"
- "θερμός", meaning "hot" in Greek
- "fructus", meaning "fruit"
- "vindemia", meaning "vintage" (harvesting of grapes)
- "brume", meaning "fog" in French
- "frimas", meaning "frost" in French
- "nivosus", meaning "snowy"
Today (2026-03-23 UTC) would be the 23rd of Germinal, 2026 CE.
Wait, I thought the French Republican Calendar had 10 months only?
- Samantha
- Ross
- Gavin
- David
- Dyllon
- Patricia
- Annie
- Thomas
- Tillie
- Siobhan
- Janice
- Francisco
Oneuary, twouary, threeuary, fouruary, fiveuary, sixuary, sevenuary, eightuary, nineuary, tenuary, elevenuary, twelveuary
If you do that in Latin, you get names like September, October, and December. Just make sure not to randomly insert two extra months, making sevenuary by the 9th month.
Monuary, Dotuary, Trituary, Quadtember, Quintober, Sextember, September, October, November, December, Undecember, Dodecember
Oneember, Twoember, Threeember, Fourember, Fiveember, Sixember, Sevenember, Eightember, November (just to fuck with people), Tenember, Elevenember, Twelveember
- Onech
- Twoch
- Threech
- Fourch
- Fivech
- Sixch
- Sevench
- Eightch
- Ninech
- Tench
- Eleventh
- Twelvech
I was thinking about tossing in one "Greg" just to keep things interesting
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0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11
But then dates written like 2026-01-01 in the old format would be interpreted as being one month ahead! The reverse may also happen too. That sounds like a very bad idea
Well days of the month would need to be zero indexed as well
0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, A, B
1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 5, 7, 8, 9, 11, 10, 12
1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 5, 7, 8, 9, 11, 10, 12, 13
4, 8, 15, 16, 23, 42
This is the right answer. 13 months of 4 weeks and an extra day on the last month.
How does this line up with lunar cycles? Is the solar year closer to 12 or 13 months?
Edit: I decided to answer my own question. It turns out there are about 12.4 lunar cycles per solar year, so it does fall right between 12 and 13, meaning that (in my opinion) both 12 and 13 months seem like reasonable systems.
Unfortunately it also means there's no way to really sync the months with the year perfectly.
A side note on the solar year/lunar month not lining up... I know that planets in a star system tend to fall into resonant orbits, so you'll often see common ratios in planetary orbital periods, making occultations more common (when planets all line up). But I actually don't know how this relates to a planet's moons.
1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13
4, 4, 4, 4, 7
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It kind of annoys me that the months named for their position don't line up to that position anymore.
September - (7) 9th
October - (8) 10th
November - (9) 11th
December - (10) 12th
But if we have the option to make big changes I'd be interested in going for 13 months.
My birthday would be on a Saturday forever. I'm fine with this.
Here, is this better?
Monember
Dicember
Triember
Tetrember
Pentamber
Hexamber
September
October
November
December
Undecember
Dodecember
You know what... I've never seen this before, but I fully endorse this solution. This is mostly what we already have in place, but favoring consistency rather than flattering Roman emperors.
For those who didn't know,
- August - named after Augustus Caesar
- July - named after Julius Caeser
Also, a few others are named after Roman gods. It's cool, but not super relevant to anyone today.
Love it. Send me a calendar with firefighter pugs.
I'll second the IFC. My only addition would be that the Year Day and the Leap Day are mandatory holidays: fucking everything except critical utility infrastructure shift/on-call work (police, fire, power/water/sewage, etc) is closed. Employers must not require an employee to work consecutive Year or Leap Days.
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Morning Star, Sun's Dawn, First Seed, Rain's Hand, Second Seed, Midyear, Sun's Height, Last Seed, Hearthfire, Frostfall, Sun's Dusk, Evening Star
April, August, December, Februrary, March, May, January, July, June, November, October, September
(i.e. the existing names but alphabetised)
(EDIT: J traditionally comes before M. Am idiot.)
This would make things so much easier in Excel
i guess your alphabet is a little different to mine. But i can dig it.
Nope. I'm just old and stupid.
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01001010 01100001 01101110 01110101 01100001 01110010 01111001
01000110 01100101 01100010 01110010 01110101 01100001 01110010 01111001
01001101 01100001 01110010 01100011 01101000
01000001 01110000 01110010 01101001 01101100
01001101 01100001 01111001
01001010 01110101 01101110 01100101
01001010 01110101 01101100 01111001
01000001 01110101 01100111 01110101 01110011 01110100
01010011 01100101 01110000 01110100 01100101 01101101 01100010 01100101 01110010
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01001110 01101111 01110110 01100101 01101101 01100010 01100101 01110010
01000100 01100101 01100011 01100101 01101101 01100010 01100101 01110010
There would be only one month. It’s called “Year” and has 365 days.
Too bad for people who are monthly paid.
May, June, June, June, July, July, July, July, August, August, August, September
I don’t much care for winter.
1,2,3,4,5,7,8,9,10,11,12,13
13
Lousy Smarch weather.
The Japanese got it right: Just number them. First month, second month etc.
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I would second the motion to a 13 month calendar of all 28-day months (despite the fact you KNOW my birthday is going to end up on a forever Monday). The days of the week are named after scientists of seven different disciplines, the months after artists. There is a theme with the artists, so that 1/4 is musicians, 1/4 visual artists, 1/4 writers, 1/4 builders.
Whenever I see a street or city named after a politician or military officer, I always wish there were more things named after people that are actually useful for the world.
For reference, I was born on the 12th day of the month of Lady Gaga, of course an Einsteinday.
Month, monthh, monthhh, monthhhh, monthhhhh, monthhhhhh, monthhhhhhh, monthhhhhhhh, monthhhhhhhhh, monthhhhhhhhh, monthhhhhhhhhhh, monthhhhhhhhhh
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