Friday, July 23, 2010

Just a thought

Our calendar is so screwed up

The day of out births is not the same every year. I do not know what day of the week I was born because our dumb calendar. What if we baised our birthdays depending on the month and the days of the week instead of the "dates"? For example: If you were born on the second tuesday of the month, then every year, you would celebrate your birthday on the second tuesday of that month.

I wonder, would that make is less of a wait until ones birthday or more of a wait?

And, this may be a screwed up way to think about it, but if you count how many days until your birthday, your original birthday, from January 1st, would it even be in the same month as it was the year before? And what even constitutes the actuality of the starting or ending of a month? The simple rule that is taught in elementary school "Thiry days in September, April, June and November. All the rest have thirty-one except for Feburary", but what logic is that based off of? Why does November have 30 days and December has 31? And WHY ON EARTH does Feburary have 29 or 28 days depending on a "leap year"? And all those poor children who are born on Februrary 29th and do not get their actual birthday for every 3 years?

If the calendar was correct, wouldn't our birthdays be on the same date, day of the week, and month as the year before? And no birthdays would be omitted from the calendar?

How many days would constitute an actual year? Not the whole, 365 or whatever amount of days, but how many days it would take to reach the same day of the week and date as we were born. I think it may be more than 365. THEN THERE WOULD BE ALL THE OTHER BIRTHDAYS IN THE EXTRA MONTHS OR EXTRA DAYS OF THE MONTHS THAT WERE RECORDED WRONG!

RwaR. I guess it might be better to leave our screwed up calendar the way it is, TOO CONFUSING OTHERWISE!

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