International Fixed Calendar

[veggiechicken]

Are you sitting comfortably? Then I'll begin..............

I've been puzzling over next year's sowing plan and how I could get it to line up with a calendar. I need 13 x 4 weeks in my year, not 12 months of different lengths. Then I discovered the International Fixed Calendar and I'm trying to understand it!!
International Fixed Calendar

Every year and month begins on a Monday. The 7th of any month will always be a Saturday and, if your birthday was on the 7th (as mine is), you would always celebrate it on a Saturday for the rest of your life. How odd would that be?

The 13th "month" comes after June and before July and is called Sol.

In a Leap year, the 29th Feb extra day is added onto the last weekend of June which will be a 3 day weekend with a Double Sunday.

The 365th day of each year is added onto the last weekend (New Year's Eve) so there would be 3 days of celebrations and another Double Sunday.

I'm sure this is as clear as mud but I'm intrigued by it. I hadn't noticed before that each week in my diary is numbered (this is Week 37) so I may be devising my own "calendar" to match the weeks.

Please don't send the men in white coats for me until I've finished it.

[JanieB]

Not a silly idea. My late other half used to play a tape in the car, when we were going on a long journey, called �The Calendar� narrated by David Jacobi. I can�t remember if one of the ideas was what you are proposing, probably because I found the whole tape so unutterably boring it sent me to sleep within the first few minutes. Maybe that�s why he played it.

[Chestnut]

My diary came printed with numbered weeks which match the tax year - maybe would be easier to adapt that than try to buy a diary/calendar written in international fixed?

[Lumpy]

Here's an idea for you VC.

Can't you work out your planner based upon what the DWP do with pensions and benefits?

It would give you a 13 month year and be easy to sub divide into slots.

[4Shoes]

You should be able to set something up in your computer calendar (depending on the features available)


Look at the options under repeat appointments. There might be on for yearly or after # of weeks

[Cadalot]

I just used the https://www.gardenfocused.co.uk/cale...rsonalised.php tweaked the frost dates for my area and it produced a plan for me that I then added too with reminders re successional sowing of items it uses month and week number to achieve it's purpose as there are always the same amount of weeks in each calendar month. See Alans Allotment: Sowing & Planting Plan

[veggiechicken]

Thanks for reading my late night musings! Most times, when I go to sleep thinking about something, I wake up with an answer - didn't work last night!

Computers don't "work" for me. I have a 4 week repeat set up on mine and its OK for simple actions like "sow seeds" but the detail of what to sow isn't there.
I'm trying to devise a perpetual sowing calendar around my Roots, Shoots, Fruits and Leaves rotation (eg sow Roots in weeks 1, 5, 9 - and seeds are sown on Mondays!).

The answer seems to be to ignore the dates and focus on the week numbers which would give me 13 repeats in a year.

(Wake up at the back there )

Perpetual gardening diaries have 4 weeks in each month, regardless of how many days there are. Don't they realise that that gives us 4 weeks each year to be idle layabouts!

Anyway, thanks for lending me your ears, I'm getting there.

[Jay-ell]

Does this only have 3 seasons?

[Jungle Jane]

You could print out this type of week calendar,where you tear each page off after each week -
http://www.calendarpedia.com/downloa...anagement.docx

[Jay-ell]

Or you could just give each day it's own name. That way you can sow your celery any time between Goat and Rhubarb and stop worrying.

[burnie]

What's a calendar, since I retired I often don't know what day it is, brilliant it is too. I go to sleep when I want and get/stay up when it suits, once a fortnight I help look after the grandsons, so I need to know when Wednesdays are, other than that I follow natures drift.

[veggiechicken]

I don't need to know when Wednesday is (its Weednesday on my calendar) or what time it is (just as well as I've no idea where my watch is - and don't say look at your phone)
I'm just challenging my brain (and yours) I appreciate all the suggestions, really, I do.

[Jay-ell]

Today's Crayfish - It'll be Grape soon

[veggiechicken]

I hope you're not mocking me,Jay-ell
Today is Chooksday. I thought everyone knew that.

[Jay-ell]

Course I'm not mocking you.

Grape is the name of New years day which is the autumnal Equinox.

Of course there's 12 months, each with 3 weeks, each week being 10 days plus a few extra days added on at the end.


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French...alendar#Autumn