Leap Day!
February 29th, 2016
As someone who's generally neurotic and neurotic about numbers in particular, I've always been fascinated by Leap Day. Yes, I know the whole reasoning behind its occasional inclusion in my calendar because I am a big space nerd, but it just highlights problems I have with how we document the passage of time overall. And not just because it revolves around Jesus, instead of someone cooler - like Marduk.
No, what I despise most is how the months all have a different number of days. Why not just make twelve months of thirty days each, and then call the leftover days Vacation or whatever. Make it a point to give everyone that whole interval of time off from work. And you can staple your Leap Day in there during your Leap Year, and that way nobody has to remember which months have more days than others.
Or you can just do what these guys did, and start adding days to the calendar wherever you feel like it.
Better yet, just get rid of months entirely - only have the date and the year. That way, if it's a leap year, you have a three hundred and sixty sixth day. Otherwise, the calendar just stops at day three hundred and sixty five, and you start over again next year. No muss, no fuss, and no months. So no having to research why some months have thirty days and some have thirty one. Or, uh, twenty eight.
Or twenty nine. Whatever. Stupid time, anyway.