The English/French counting system (WAS: number systemsfromconlangs)

"Mark J. Reed" wrote:
> Ah, now you've gone and got me started on calendar reform.  Foolish,
> foolish man. :) I'd rather see a 364-day calendar, since that's a
> whole number of weeks.  Then we could either ignore the difference
> between the calendar and tropical years, as you suggest, or have
> a leap week every 5 or 6 years to make up the difference.
That's another idea I've had, actually.  :-)  That or a 360 day year,
which would allow 12 30-day months.  Perhaps every 5 or 6 years we could
add a leap month, if we wanted to keep with the solar calendar, or just
let it drift (the Muslims seem to have no problem with religious
holidays drifting, surely we could adjust, too)

Course, any calendar reform inevitably would have the same problem as
the Julian/Gregorian switchover, of differences between countries using
the old and those using the new.  The proposals I especially dislike
involve altering the week cycle, such that there's an extra day at the
end of the year belonging to no week.  Imagine the confusion of it being
Tuesday in the US and Friday in Canada.  :-)

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