Since the French Republicans made one, I am a little surprised I haven’t been able to find any information in terms of socialist states.
There’s the Soviet Calendar and the Juche Calendar, both tried and dropped in favor of going back to the same standard as the rest of the world.
The Soviet Calendar was the more experimental of the two. They wanted to move away from a seven day week and to a five day week, assigning everyone one random day off in order to have a constant industrial schedule for their factories. This idea was unpopular, primarily because people wanted to have the same day off as their family and friends instead of a random assignment, and after over a decade of trying and not really being able to convince anyone to adopt the schedule the Soviets dropped the idea.
The Juche calendar just set year zero to Kim Il Sung’s birthday. KJU dropped it, presumably for boring standardization reasons, although every Western news article about it says that it was some kind of cultural power grab in the way that they like to do about everything that happens in the DPRK.
The Soviet Calendar has similarities to the technocracy movement (not socialism but has some lines of similarity) functional calendar proposal: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technocracy_movement#Calendar
In lecture form:
skip to 7:32Better quality (skip to 43:23)I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
that xkcd comic about making a new standard to replace the old 14 standards and now having 15 standards.
Yes brother it’s called the weekend
Hell ya comrade
I got this one off of here a while ago: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Hexbear-Code-Op/apc-json/refs/heads/main/src/ics/aPC.ics
This seems to be the source:
A “socialist calendar” seems like kind of a silly idea to me (because if you’re going to make a significant change to your day to day life it should be for a practical reason) but I would support the idea of some kind of decimal calendar or whatever in that vein. Something that is actually consistent, with a set number of days and weeks in each month, rather than the current one which feels very much like trying to remember how many yards are in a mile. I wouldn’t be opposed at the same time to renaming the days so we’re not referencing some random gods and stuff every time we talk about each day (but also I wouldn’t mind keeping them because it’s kind of funny)
Decimalisation of the week. 5 day week-end. A year is 40 weeks. Abolition of timezone.
Do you mean like how the DPRK has their own?
In the sense that Pope Gregory made the calendar we use today
