Why did the Soviet Calendar fail?
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Date: 2022-09-19
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education
I am not soviet or marxist, but I as well see issue with standard calendar and 9-5 working 5 days a week. Mainly that impact on the infrastructure, basically there is loads of capacity on Saturdays and Sundays, but we all struggle to get were we are going during the peak hours (usually 7-10 and 16-19. If we get rid of static days and hours of work, we can improve infrastructure capacity by 20% without building anything new. Same applies to office space etc. And to be fair many industries with less protections have already moved away from 9-5 and 5 days to shift working.
I am not saying we need to change calendar for that, be it would be more efficient to make all days equal and just spread the work equally across the week, month, year etc. And as well - don't you hate it when your birthday or some important event happens on Wednesday? It would be way better to be able to work any day of the week with some flexibility.
My views goes beyond the calendar and days, to as well basically asking for large employers to spread out working hours between 7 and 19, sort of diffusing peak times, but that has nothing to do with calendar so I won't go into more details.
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I am not soviet or marxist, but I as well see issue with standard calendar and 9-5 working 5 days a week. Mainly that impact on the infrastructure, basically there is loads of capacity on Saturdays and Sundays, but we all struggle to get were we are going during the peak hours (usually 7-10 and 16-19. If we get rid of static days and hours of work, we can improve infrastructure capacity by 20% without building anything new. Same applies to office space etc. And to be fair many industries with less protections have already moved away from 9-5 and 5 days to shift working.
I am not saying we need to change calendar for that, be it would be more efficient to make all days equal and just spread the work equally across the week, month, year etc. And as well - don't you hate it when your birthday or some important event happens on Wednesday? It would be way better to be able to work any day of the week with some flexibility.
My views goes beyond the calendar and days, to as well basically asking for large employers to spread out working hours between 7 and 19, sort of diffusing peak times, but that has nothing to do with calendar so I won't go into more details.
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Pi
I've always liked the idea of the 10 day week. you get days 5, 9, and 10 off. there are 3 weeks in a month and the extra 5 days are holidays that are their own thing with no month or day of the week.
also, I love the 30 hour day but that of course is not so practical to change, given the origin of the length of the day is literally solar in nature. but essentially the day is 18 hours long. this is enough time to get more done. it means that before/after your 8ish hour workday you have 10 hours for yourself. additionally, the night is 12 hours long, allowing for a very luxurious night sleep that you will absolutely be ready for after 18 hours of wake.
in closing, if we all just ignored the sun and the 7 day work week we could have a 9 month year, of 3 week months, of 10 day weeks, of 30 hours with 22 holidays interspersed.
thanks for coming to my Ted talk.
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I've always liked the idea of the 10 day week. you get days 5, 9, and 10 off. there are 3 weeks in a month and the extra 5 days are holidays that are their own thing with no month or day of the week.
also, I love the 30 hour day but that of course is not so practical to change, given the origin of the length of the day is literally solar in nature. but essentially the day is 18 hours long. this is enough time to get more done. it means that before/after your 8ish hour workday you have 10 hours for yourself. additionally, the night is 12 hours long, allowing for a very luxurious night sleep that you will absolutely be ready for after 18 hours of wake.
in closing, if we all just ignored the sun and the 7 day work week we could have a 9 month year, of 3 week months, of 10 day weeks, of 30 hours with 22 holidays interspersed.
thanks for coming to my Ted talk.
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Ingo
Decimal time is a necessity of organized societies to function. Many tried, all failed.
Except one! The digital time used in computers that did away with anything larger than seconds.
No human thinks this way, but the world runs on it.
You will encounter it with glee if you put something like 0 in an excel sheet and excelt happily converts it to 00. 01. 1900 for you thinking it was second 0 of the beginning of time
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Decimal time is a necessity of organized societies to function. Many tried, all failed.
Except one! The digital time used in computers that did away with anything larger than seconds.
No human thinks this way, but the world runs on it.
You will encounter it with glee if you put something like 0 in an excel sheet and excelt happily converts it to 00. 01. 1900 for you thinking it was second 0 of the beginning of time
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Luis
Well, there were also other messianic leaders who attempted to change the calendar. Another such idiot was Mussolini, who started counting from year 1 of the fascist era, while maintaining the regular Gregorian calendar everybody else used. Regretfully for the Italian dictator lasted little more than a decade. Subsequently a mob decided to hang him like salami from a street lamp and he too became. unavailable!
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Well, there were also other messianic leaders who attempted to change the calendar. Another such idiot was Mussolini, who started counting from year 1 of the fascist era, while maintaining the regular Gregorian calendar everybody else used. Regretfully for the Italian dictator lasted little more than a decade. Subsequently a mob decided to hang him like salami from a street lamp and he too became. unavailable!
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Ben
The people who came up with the French Revolutionary calendar also tried reforming the clock system, with 100 seconds to a minute, 100 minutes to an hour, etc. This was unpopular and fell out of style pretty quickly though.
Also, when the Paris Commune took over, they reinstated the Revolutionary Calendar, making 1870 Year LXXIX (79. Of course it only lasted 18 days before they were repressed.
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The people who came up with the French Revolutionary calendar also tried reforming the clock system, with 100 seconds to a minute, 100 minutes to an hour, etc. This was unpopular and fell out of style pretty quickly though.
Also, when the Paris Commune took over, they reinstated the Revolutionary Calendar, making 1870 Year LXXIX (79. Of course it only lasted 18 days before they were repressed.
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ILove
Question: so knowing that there were numerous attempts to make a new calendar does that mean that a earth year is not 365 days? The Chinese one for example is relatively longer than the roman one not to mention the the 100s other Calender
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Question: so knowing that there were numerous attempts to make a new calendar does that mean that a earth year is not 365 days? The Chinese one for example is relatively longer than the roman one not to mention the the 100s other Calender
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Paul
Stop what you're doing, go to 1: 07 and read the League of Nations blurb. That level of commitment to infusing the whole video with his humor even though most people would skip over the newspaper is why History Matters is the GOAT
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Stop what you're doing, go to 1: 07 and read the League of Nations blurb. That level of commitment to infusing the whole video with his humor even though most people would skip over the newspaper is why History Matters is the GOAT
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Brandon
What makes it funny for the Soviets adopting the Gregorian calendar is that now the October revolution happened in November and the February revolution happened in March. And despite this they never changed the names.
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What makes it funny for the Soviets adopting the Gregorian calendar is that now the October revolution happened in November and the February revolution happened in March. And despite this they never changed the names.
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Evgeniia
I have never heard such nonsense in my life. In 1918 the Julian calendar was replaced with the Gregorian. That's it. The 5-day calendar was used to calculate shifts at work and was never used in everyday life.
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I have never heard such nonsense in my life. In 1918 the Julian calendar was replaced with the Gregorian. That's it. The 5-day calendar was used to calculate shifts at work and was never used in everyday life.
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UnclePieKSP
So, essentially, what you're saying is.
That exploitation of workers is not the sole property of capitalist economic policy, and that socialist and communist economic policies don't work.
Excellent.
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So, essentially, what you're saying is.
That exploitation of workers is not the sole property of capitalist economic policy, and that socialist and communist economic policies don't work.
Excellent.
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Semper
North Korea still has its own weird calendar called the Juche calendar, which starts on the birth year of Kim Il Sung. and all of its holidays are based on the birthdays and dead days of their previous leaders.
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North Korea still has its own weird calendar called the Juche calendar, which starts on the birth year of Kim Il Sung. and all of its holidays are based on the birthdays and dead days of their previous leaders.
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education
interesting that the soviet ideology was by making better life quality for the simple worker when they only forced them to work more and more, in some times they wanted to get rid of dayoffs on sunday.
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interesting that the soviet ideology was by making better life quality for the simple worker when they only forced them to work more and more, in some times they wanted to get rid of dayoffs on sunday.
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kmg501
It is funny how socialists are almost always bemoaning the _ exploitation _ of workers while it was the Soviet socialists who were intent to make a whole new calendar to get more work out of workers. lmao
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It is funny how socialists are almost always bemoaning the _ exploitation _ of workers while it was the Soviet socialists who were intent to make a whole new calendar to get more work out of workers. lmao
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Quake
Honestly most of the reformed calendars have been rather impractical. The only one that seems practical enough is the Hanke Henry one. The problem is that it's not worth the logistical effort
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Honestly most of the reformed calendars have been rather impractical. The only one that seems practical enough is the Hanke Henry one. The problem is that it's not worth the logistical effort
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