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In English (other languages are irrelevant), the days of the week are Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday.
These abbreviate to MTWTFSS which is inconvenient as two letters – T and S – are used twice.
Two letter abbreviations are a clumsy workaround and use expensive
extra bytes of storage.
We propose that for the second occurrence of each letter, the second letter of the day name is taken, resulting in MTWHFSU.
And thus progress is made.
Cthursday and Zaturday
Cthursday_20and_20Zaturday
Similar [8th of 7, Jul 06 2019]
New naming scheme for the days of week
New_20naming_20sche..._20days_20of_20week
More rational [8th of 7, Jul 06 2019]
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But they are still, annoyingly, not in alphabetical order. May I
suggest:
mondAy
tuesDay
wEdnesday
tHursday
frIday
satuRday
sundaY |
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You may. It won't do any good, because our idea is clearly superior, but you may certainly suggest it. |
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Around here we go by MTWRFSU.
[m-f-d] naming... |
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May tHor smite you for your insolence. |
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[IT] has already been the recipient of multiple smitings from a variety of deities, which accounts for a great deal. |
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We dispute [Ray]'s [m-f-d] as this is not a proposal for naming or re-naming; it is a rationalization of an existing convention so as to be both more comprehensible and efficient. |
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No, by changing the abbreviations; the names themselves are unchanged. |
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Actually, if you shuffle the days around and change the
pronunciation, they could just be in numerical order.
Onesday, Twosday, Threesday... |
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It also troubles me somewhat that all the days are of similar
duration - why bother having days of the week if they're all
the same? They should start out short (Monday), get longer
during the week, and then Saturday and Sunday should be at
least three or four hours longer. |
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The -day bit is redundant, just call them 1, 2, 3, etc. |
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<Outrageous Cockney accent> |
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" 'Ello Tosh, got a new weekday ? " |
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<Outrageous Cockney accent/> |
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Hmm, then you could use day-names in place of other
related abbrev.s:
Saturday Tuesday Friday Sunday
Wednesday Tuesday Friday
Thursday Sunday Thursday? |
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Its redundant having seven days. Call them all just 1 |
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The problem being addressed here is that in abbreviating the days two letters are duplicated - i.e. MTWTFSS. The simplest solution is surely to drop and merge the duplicates and switch to a 5-day week - MTWFS (Monday, Thuesday, Wednesday, Friday, Suterday). This has the advantage that the weekend (Friday and Suterday) now makes up two fifths of the week as opposed to two sevenths. |
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It's all very unsatisfactory. |
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Your planet's orbit is not a neat integer number of rotations, and your primary natural satellite is also inconveniently timed. |
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Firstly, adjust the lunar "month" to be exactly 30 days. This is done by moving the moon a little further away, and is good practice for the next part - moving your planet slightly closer to your primary so as to give an exact 360-day year. |
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There may be some very minor climatic consequences, but at least you'll then have a nice tidy calendar system. |
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An adjustment of time measurenent to give 30 hours in a day could be done at the same time, finally ending complaints that "There aren't enough hours in the day". |
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This, is a huge improvement. Unday and Hursday
forever. Similarly, the summer months should be
amended such that JFMAYULGSOND applies for January,
February, March, April, Y, Une, Ly, Gust, September,
October, November and December. |
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The French Revolutionary Decimal calendar was much more sensible. |
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Monday and Oneday sound too similar. |
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