the year has 12 months, easily split into four equal quarters [segments of 3 months]:my simple question is....

Question

would you like to see holidays instituted around the:

31st december/1st of january...
31st march/1st of april...
30th june/1st of july...
30th september/1st of october

to my mind, it would be nice to be able to have four exactly equidistant resting points [in the year] to give a logical/secular/rational structure to the experience of the passing of the year,[that incidentally is also synchronised with new year---ie exactly three months after new year we have april 1st holiday----exactly three months after which..we have july 1st holiday----exactly three months after which comes 1st october holiday...then full circle again with jan 1st-three months later.

most people like to divide tasks into halves and quarters, and i see no reason why we couldnt divide the year itself by four quarter points- but that also align with new years day.

i know the equinoxes and solstices are almost the same thing, but theyt are not aligned to our current ist jan new years day.................

Answer 1

I agree kind of

Answer 2

There are all sorts of ways to be creative about our illogical calendar. How about ten months of 36 or 37 days each, for a total of 365 days? Keep the 7-day week, but have five of them per month, with the extra day or two days as holidays. These holidays would have their own names, not weekday names. Alternating months would have either one or two three-day weekends. We can get rid of February - too cold - and August - too hot.

Now that we have a calendar based on ten months, let's change the clocks to a decimal structure as well. Twenty hours a day, 10 in the a.m. and 10 in the p.m. The hours would be longer, so have each hour equal 100 minutes, and each minute 100 seconds.

All of these measurements are completely arbitrary, except for the length of the day (in actual time) and the length of the year (365.25 days, approximately). Those we cannot change, because the Earth rotates at a fixed rate, and it revolves around the sun at a fixed rate. Oh, yes, we would still have to have leap years.