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Sandra 2: Bega Boogaloo
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.
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?
Tim.
All of them are Tim.
- Intention
- Ice
- Seed
- Change
- Joy
- Sun
- Moon
- Fire
- Harvest
- Rain
- Despair
- Family
I eally like these names. But Despair needs an alternative name. Think of the poor people whose birthday is "Despair 1st".
Wind could also work.
I'd pull out 'July' and 'August', move everything else up two spaces and put 'July' and 'August' at the end.
- Calm
- Ice
- Rise
- Rebirth
- Life
- Sun
- Vitality
- Fire
- Set
- Harvest
- Death
- Moon
I wanted each to be a pair with 6 months apart and for the solstices and equinoxes to each have an appropriate name
13 months of 28 days each. New Years is its own day outside of a month. Monday is first of each month. New Year's is not a day of the week. Leap year feb 29th is moved to May to be a nice weather day for most of the world. It too is a holiday, and not a day of the week.
Name this holiday, and bonus, the 13 months.
Keep the month names the same but name the 13th "Smarch".
iniciary, seconduary, ternuary, foursh, fifsh, siksh, septembre, ocrobre, novembre, december, oncember, docember
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.
- Samantha
- Ross
- Gavin
- David
- Dyllon
- Patricia
- Annie
- Thomas
- Tillie
- Siobhan
- Janice
- Francisco
All 20 months named Febtober.
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.
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.
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.
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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
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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
The idea that July and August were added and shifted the months to be wrong is actually a misconception afaik. The months they replaced were already basically "fiveuary" and "sixuary".
The numbering got shifted off when they decided January should be the first month; it used to be March. February was the last month, which explains why leap days are added to February.
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
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The Japanese got it right: Just number them. First month, second month etc.
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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
This wouldn't be a good idea, as then people would easily mix up dates using the old names with your system (e.g. January would go from being the first month to being the seventh!)
i guess your alphabet is a little different to mine. But i can dig it.
Nope. I'm just old and stupid.
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.
They would turn into 13 months and each one would have 28 days. September to December would be placed 7th to 10th, then July and August at the end, followed by Hermes as the 13th.
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