[rlt3]

I don't really know why, but I like the imperfectness of our calendar system now.

Stupid stuff like February having only 29 days is pretty funny and those 7 days of December 25th to January 1st is perfect because its an exact week.

It would be too boring if every month was the same.

Could we have fun stuff like `April Showers Bring may Flowers' if every month was just the same 28 days? I'm sure we could, but everything would be the same and that's boring.

[pothibo]

From a developer standpoint, I loathe our calendar/time system.

The world has wasted shit load of time & money trying to fix stupid bugs with our time systems, I would welcome a more linear system.

[fsck--off]

You might enjoy Naggum's A Long, Painful History of Time:

http://naggum.no/lugm-time.html

[Groxx]

"enjoy" or "remind you of those gaping wounds that never really healed and you may have forgotten about them but NO!"?

[mosburger]

Meh, a lot of that is buried away in libraries and stuff and I never worry about it.

Time zones on the other hand...

[dustincoates]

It's not a popular opinion at all, but that's how I feel about the Imperial units of measurement. I get the benefits of metric, but Imperial just feels more... poetic?

It could also be just familiarity with what I grew up with, I suppose.

[batiudrami]

It works better as a spoken language (and therefore fairly well for estimated distances), but man, does it make any kind of calculation annoying (many engineering textbooks are from the US and use imperial units - you end up with stupidity like BTU/ft^2.s.

The thing I think many people from the US don't understand about a transition is that it doesn't mean you're somehow not allowed to use imperial units anymore - in Australia it's still used regularly in spoken language (especially with regard to distances) - but anything where the number matters, the value is given in metric, so calculations can be performed simply.

[k-mcgrady]

February has 28 days - 29 in a leap year.

[Roedou]

Thirty days has September, April, June, and November;

All the rest have thirty-one except February alone which has twenty-eight;

Except on every fourth year, when it has 29;

Except on years divisible by 100, when it has 28 again;

Unless the year is also divisible by 1000, when it's back to 29.

[jeroen]

Almost, but the last one should be:

Unless the year is also divisible by 400, when it's back to 29.

[andrewl]

I grew up with this:

  Thirty days has September,
  April, June, and November,
  All the rest have thirty-one except February,
  Which has four and twenty-four,
  'til leap year gives it one day more.

[nimrod_135]

Use your knuckles, with both hands next to each other, from left to right Jan - Dec. Each 'hump' has 31 days.

[philbarr]

Yes, this is the way I remember. My wife quotes the rhyme and I annoy her by pointing out the following issues:

1 - 3 lines of the rhyme at the end are utterly pointless as it's much easier to just remember that leap years are actually a thing.

2 - The fact that it rhymes doesn't help you remember which months you're talking about. It could quite easily be, "30 days hath September; October, November, December" and it would still rhyme but be wrong.

[JoelAnair]

My grandfather used to say "Thirty days has November, all the rest I can't remember."

[gpmcadam]

> 1 - 3 lines of the rhyme at the end are utterly pointless as it's much easier to just remember that leap years are actually a thing.

I was taught:

    Thirty Days has September,
    April, June and November.
    All the rest have Thirty One;
    Except February, it's a different one!

[jimgardener]

or use just the left hand and tap twice on knuckle of forefinger for july and August :)

[TeMPOraL]

> I don't really know why, but I like the imperfectness of our calendar system now.

Both in your case with calendar and in case of dustincoates and the Imperial units, I think you like the way things are because you got used to it.