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It kind of annoys me that the months named for their position don't line up to that position anymore.

September - (7) 9th

October - (8) 10th

November - (9) 11th

December - (10) 12th

But if we have the option to make big changes I'd be interested in going for 13 months.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Fixed_Calendar

Oneuary, twouary, threeuary, fouruary, fiveuary, sixuary, sevenuary, eightuary, nineuary, tenuary, elevenuary, twelveuary

The Japanese got it right: Just number them. First month, second month etc.

April, August, December, Februrary, March, May, January, July, June, November, October, September

(i.e. the existing names but alphabetised)

(EDIT: J traditionally comes before M. Am idiot.)

I would second the motion to a 13 month calendar of all 28-day months (despite the fact you KNOW my birthday is going to end up on a forever Monday). The days of the week are named after scientists of seven different disciplines, the months after artists. There is a theme with the artists, so that 1/4 is musicians, 1/4 visual artists, 1/4 writers, 1/4 builders.

Whenever I see a street or city named after a politician or military officer, I always wish there were more things named after people that are actually useful for the world.

For reference, I was born on the 12th day of the month of Lady Gaga, of course an Einsteinday.

No love for the French Republican Calendar months?

1. Pluvose
2. Ventose
3. Germinal
4. Floreal
5. Prarial
6. Messidor
7. Thermidor
8. Fructidor
9. Vendemiaire
10. Brumaire
11. Frimaire
12. Nivose

People who know their Latin roots might know what these months are named after, but here's a guide:

1. "pluviosus", meaning "rain"
2. "ventosus", meaning "windy"
3. "germen", meaning "germination" (of a plant)
4. "flos", meaning "flower"; or "floreo", meaning "blossom" (of a flower)
5. "prairie" (field)
6. "messis", meaning "harvest"
7. "θερμός", meaning "hot" in Greek
8. "fructus", meaning "fruit"
9. "vindemia", meaning "vintage" (harvesting of grapes)
10. "brume", meaning "fog" in French
11. "frimas", meaning "frost" in French
12. "nivosus", meaning "snowy"

Today (2026-03-23 UTC) would be the 23rd of Germinal, 2026 CE.

Tim.

All of them are Tim.

They would turn into 13 months and each one would have 28 days. September to December would be placed 7th to 10th, then July and August at the end, followed by Hermes as the 13th.

1,2,3,4,5,7,8,9,10,11,12,13

I would just redo the entire thing based on the same idea of 13 28 day months with extra days as holidays in the theme of the International Fixed Calendar but rename all of the months and have the year start on one of the equinox instead of a week after a solstice like the Gregorian calendar.

No, I don't have suggestions for the names of the months, but naming them based on the solar cycle would be fun. Not sure how to make that work consistently for the northern and southern hemispheres, but if it was based on something like 'northern solstice/southern solstice and first equinox, second equinox for the months with those date and maybe waxing and waning could work.

1. Angela
2. Pamela
3. Sandra
4. Rita
5. Monica
6. Erica
7. Tina
8. Sandra
9. Mary
10. Jessica
11. You
12. Me

Another, Year, Passes, Us, By, And, We, All, Die, In, The, End.

Your idea is great. But I would switch it to five months of 73 days each and name them Microbes, Plants, Fungi, Animals, and Robots.

01001010 01100001 01101110 01110101 01100001 01110010 01111001

01000110 01100101 01100010 01110010 01110101 01100001 01110010 01111001

01001101 01100001 01110010 01100011 01101000

01000001 01110000 01110010 01101001 01101100

01001101 01100001 01111001

01001010 01110101 01101110 01100101

01001010 01110101 01101100 01111001

01000001 01110101 01100111 01110101 01110011 01110100

01010011 01100101 01110000 01110100 01100101 01101101 01100010 01100101 01110010

01001111 01100011 01110100 01101111 01100010 01100101 01110010

01001110 01101111 01110110 01100101 01101101 01100010 01100101 01110010

01000100 01100101 01100011 01100101 01101101 01100010 01100101 01110010

Month 1, 2, etc. Same with the week days.

1. Intention
2. Ice
3. Seed
4. Change
5. Joy
6. Sun
7. Moon
8. Fire
9. Harvest
10. Rain
11. Despair
12. Family

13 months of 28 days each. New Years is its own day outside of a month. Monday is first of each month. New Year's is not a day of the week. Leap year feb 29th is moved to May to be a nice weather day for most of the world. It too is a holiday, and not a day of the week.

Name this holiday, and bonus, the 13 months.

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I'd just use the names my native language uses tbh :3. They're named after natural phenomena related to what happens those months

Morning Star, Sun's Dawn, First Seed, Rain's Hand, Second Seed, Midyear, Sun's Height, Last Seed, Hearthfire, Frostfall, Sun's Dusk, Evening Star

I'd be glad that I was chosen. I'd leave them the way they are, there's enough shit going on right now, we don't need to ask for trouble.

If everyone in the world agreed? Then I'd move us onto the International Fixed Calendar and we'd all be better off.

There would be only one month. It’s called “Year” and has 365 days.

May, June, June, June, July, July, July, July, August, August, August, September

I don’t much care for winter.

I would remove names. Many languages don't have separate names and work just fine (Japanese, for instance)

* technically Japan has month names, but no one uses them at all in daily life. My wife can't even list them all right now, heh.