NoMonth
DRAFT of the #NoMonth manifesto.
Months are crap. They are a bad unit of time, as they have a very variable length (30, 31, 28, 29?). They don't align to the astronomical phenomenon they are supossed to (lunar phases [and thus, the tides?]).
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Alternatives
Addressing Weeks
Weeks are much more relevant units of time as they have a fixed (7 days) length and are our usual work-leisure cycle.
On ISO 8601 formats: YYYY-Www for weeks, and YYYY-Www-D for days.
Addressing days
Ordinal date
Consists of a year and a day of the year.
On ISO 8601 format: YYYY-DDD.