How about an 8-day week?

[bmw]

This is an idea I've had floating around in my head for some time. When I hear things like workers pushing for 4-day work weeks or even see some schools doing 4-day school weeks, it seems to me that a compromise might be simply adding an 8th day to the week. It would come after Sunday and I would call it "Funday."

So you could still work a 5-day work-week and have 5-day school weeks and also have 3 days off. But the ratio wouldn't be quite as absurd as working 4 out of 7 days (it would be 5:8 as opposed to 4:7)

5/7 = 0.714
5/8 = 0.625
4/8 = 0.571

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This is an idea I've had floating around in my head for some time. When I hear things like workers pushing for 4-day work weeks or even see some schools doing 4-day school weeks, it seems to me that a compromise might be simply adding an 8th day to the week. It would come after Sunday and I would call it "Funday."

So you could still work a 5-day work-week and have 5-day school weeks and also have 3 days off. But the ratio wouldn't be quite as absurd as working 4 out of 7 days (it would be 5:8 as opposed to 4:7)

5/7 = 0.714
5/8 = 0.625
4/8 = 0.571

Can we divide a year up logically and have 8 days in it?

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Can we divide a year up logically and have 8 days in it?

I suppose removing a certain amount of days from the end of the month would work. Maybe there would be more or less leap years.

I've worked all sorts of schedules.
Myself I liked 4 days a week, 12 hours a day the best.

I do think 4 day school weeks would work. Isn't that what university is? If it can work for higher education, seems it should be feasible for primary and secondary schools.

[craig11152]

I do think 4 day school weeks would work. Isn't that what university is? If it can work for higher education, seems it should be feasible for primary and secondary schools.

Back in the olden days you either had M-W-F classes at hour each or Tu-Th classes at 1.5 hours each. Those were 3 credit hour classes. Then toss in some that had a 1 hour lab and they were 4 credit hour classes. I have no clue how much things have changed,

[craig11152]

Can we divide a year up logically and have 8 days in it?

Good question. It still takes about 24 hours for the earth to make a spin on its axis. It takes about 365 days to revolve around the sun. It seems hard to ignore that otherwise eventually Christmas is in the summer and 4th of July is in the winter before rotating back again.

[Turkeytop]

Can we divide a year up logically and have 8 days in it?

Why would we want to? The seven day week has served us well. It's in the Bible.

[km1125]

Just add the extra 5 days in a year at either Thanksgiving, Christmas or New Years.

We'd have 45 weeks of 8 day weeks, then give everybody 5 days off for the "holidays" (whatever you celebrate) at the end of the year and start the clock over on Jan 1.

[bmw]

I don't think anything would need to be changed as far as months or years go, since months and years already both start on different days of the week each time around anyways.

[Bryce]

The Beatles thought of that years ago.

[bmw]

On another kind-of-related topic, when are the House and the President going to sign the Senate's (nearly unanimously passed) Sunshine Protection Act? It's already mid-September and DST ends in early November.

[craig11152]

On another kind-of-related topic, when are the House and the President going to sign the Senate's (nearly unanimously passed) Sunshine Protection Act? It's already mid-September and DST ends in early November.

When are they going to execute the moron who came up with the name "Sunshine Protection Act" as if the total hours of daylight are impacted by anything other than the tilt of the earths axis as the planet orbits around the sun.

[km1125]

On another kind-of-related topic, when are the House and the President going to sign the Senate's (nearly unanimously passed) Sunshine Protection Act? It's already mid-September and DST ends in early November.

When are they going to execute the moron who came up with the name "Sunshine Protection Act" as if the total hours of daylight are impacted by anything other than the tilt of the earths axis as the planet orbits around the sun.

Not much different than the "Inflation Reduction Act", which will only cause inflation to increase over the longer term!!

The Feds need to stay out of this discussion and find something productive to spend their time on!!

[Mega Hertz]

The Beatles thought of that years ago.

I ain't got nothing but love, Bryce...eight days a week.

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The Beatles thought of that years ago.

I ain't got nothing but love, Bryce...eight days a week.

Thank god there isn’t a ninth… all that inner rage has to go somewhere…