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22.10.2025
The Decitime Experiment

I've decided to take on a project and do what should have been done centuries ago and modernise 'Time'. Think about it, we're genetically hardwired for a decimal system with ten digits on our hands and ten digits on our feet, so why the fuck do we work with a system that has 12 months in a year, 7 days in a week, 24 hours in a day, 60 minutes in an hour, and 60 seconds in a minute? It's dumb as shit!

We used to have 10 months in a year, but some stupid bastard added July and August instead of increasing the days in each month, and so now September, October, November and December make no sense whatsoever given that they mean 7, 8, 9 and 10 respectively, yet they are the 9th, 10th, 11th and 12th months of the year.

What the fuck!?

Now, Decitime (or Decimal Time, with it's 10 decimal hours in a day, 100 decimal minutes in an hour and 100 decimal seconds in a minute) was actually a thing that never took off during the French Revolution, but I propose to revitalise it and take the idea even further.

So, to get us started, check above to see my realtime decimal clock.

Now in order to take it further we have to decimalise the calendar as well ...bear with me. Here's what I propose:

Months - There will be 10 in a year. We can't do anything about there being 365/366 days in a year (obviously) but we can decimalise the number of months in a year. So each month will comprise of 36 or 37 days, alternating between each month. So month 1 will have 36 days, month 2 will have 37 days, month 3 will have 36 days, month 4 will have 37 days and so on and so forth. Thus 365 days in a year. But what of the leap year, I hear you cry? Well, there will be a zero day at the start of the first month. It can be like an extra holiday giving you an extra day every four years to recover from the usual Yuletide hangover.

What will we call these months? I'm still working on that and throwing around ideas, but the working names I have at the moment are as follows: Januber, Februber, Mariber, Apriber, Maber, Sextimber, September, October, November, December.

And so now the last 4 months of the year make perfect sense again.

Weeks/Days - There will be 10 days in a week ...obviously. Thus simplifying the situation. Given that the names of the days in our current fucked up system are based on seven of the heavenly bodies in our solar system, I propose we update this and name the days of the week in sequence of the planets from the sun outwards (since the current sequence makes no sense whatsoever). Something like: Solday, Mercuday, Venuday, Terraday, Marsday, Jupiday, Saturday, Uranuday, Neptuday, Plutoday.

Do you dig my scene?

Now, as for the leap year/zero day thing, it will be given it's own name, Lunaday (aka Monday) since nobody likes a Monday anyway.

I'll be working on a functioning calendar next (the 'Mortimerian Calendar' I'm thinking of calling it), however, in the meantime, I'm gonna have to try figure out what day of the year my birthday falls on given that I've just killed off July - the month in which I was born.