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The 7-day cycle is so important to our lives that it's better to have a date notation for human consumption that includes it.



I know not to hope for it to ever catch on, but my dream date-time format would be:

year/day/hectosecond.second(.millisecond and so on to the desired precision)

The current date-time, to the second, would be 2023/308/342.65

The days, like the years and second-based units, are 0-indexed.

There are 100 seconds in a hectosecond, and normally 864 hectoseconds in a day.

And to go with it, I'd advocate either a "3-on, 2-off", or "6-on, 4-off" work cycle, depending on the nature of the work, or even just personal preference. This way, today(308) would obviously be on a "weekend" either way.


Ideally the beginning of the 2-day and 4-day weekends would be aligned, so both groups can party on a same evening


I imagine hectoseconds would be "fun" when dealing with timezones.




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