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While we’re at it, can we base weeks and months on the lunar cycle so that we have 13 months of exactly 4 weeks each?

Edit: Not sarcasm or a bit. Genuinely. I’d love to be more in sync with nature by having our time reference based on sunrise and the lunar cycles

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Not a bad idea at all. I'm sure we can tackle that. I actually played around with another concept as well which is using the Sun's location as our reference instead of UTC. This then gives our solar system a unified time, not only Earth. It's an incomplete concept still. I have it here in this blog post https://medium.com/adventures-in-consumer-technology/introdu... Would love to hear what you think.

Thanks for the link, I just read it. Like hTime, there are some potential psychological show-stoppers but I feel like there’s a solid focus on using the very things that time were supposed to be based on.

Yes, it still needs more cooking, I'd love to hear more thoughts on that. We might need such a concept for a multi-planetary clock.

I use four suits of 13 weeks/cards, tied to local climate. Winter goes up from A of clubs to K, spring goes down from K of spades to A. A kind of a agricultural calendar.

You know when to plant things in the garden, when the peaks of trimming and gardening work are in the year, and when the heatwaves will be over with. It's very nice.

That’s neat!

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