Singularity Calendar

Singularity
Calendar

The last calendar you'll ever need

Voila! Elegance in organization!

The Singularity Calendar is a proposal for a calendar reform to celebrate the arrival of the era of artificial intelligence at best, and a great conversation starter for your cubicle wall at least. It does away with idiosyncracies of the past and brings a new order:

  • 13 months of equal length (4 full weeks) plus one new year's day
  • Each day is the same weekday each month (every 15th is a Monday)
  • Perennial, so it's valid for any year henceforth
  • Completely new names for the months in the age of technology
  • The weekends are three days long thanks to machines working for us (ya know, the way it was supposed to be: robots doing the work and we are doing the art, not the other way around.)
See the Gregorian Calendar again

The technological singularity is here. Let's reorganize!

This version of the Gregorian Calendar has been in use since 1582, a time when cutting edge technology included mechanical watches and the printing press, and it wants to remind us of a religious event that not even all the people who use this calendar believe in or care about. You are likely familiar with the following of its shortcomings:

  • You need to count your knuckles to find out how long the current month is
  • For silly and superstitious reasons, February is odd in length
  • The 30-31-30 day pattern has a hiccup in August.
  • We need to buy new single-use calendars every year
  • We need to look at the calendar to know what weekday a date is
  • Several months are offset from their proper place in the year
Discover the Singularian Calendar

The technological singularity is here. Let's reorganize!

This version of the Gregorian Calendar has been in use since 1582, a time when cutting edge technology included mechanical watches and the printing press, and it wants to remind us of a religious event that not even all the people who use this calendar believe in or care about. You are likely familiar with the following of its shortcomings:

  • You need to count your knuckles to find out how long the current month is
  • For silly and superstitious reasons, February is odd in length
  • The 30-31-30 day pattern has a hiccup in August.
  • We need to buy new single-use calendars every year
  • We need to look at the calendar to know what weekday a date is
  • Several months are offset from their proper place in the year

Voila! Elegance in organization!

The Singularity Calendar is a proposal for a calendar reform to celebrate the arrival of the era of artificial intelligence at best, and a great conversation starter for your cubicle wall at least. It does away with idiosyncracies of the past and brings a new order:

  • 13 months of equal length (4 full weeks) plus one new year's day
  • Each day is the same weekday each month (every 15th is a Monday)
  • Perennial, so it's valid for any year henceforth
  • Completely new names for the months in the age of technology
  • The weekends are three days long thanks to machines working for us (ya know, the way it was supposed to be: robots doing the work and we are doing the art, not the other way around.)

Meet the new months

The Singularity Calendar has 13 months which have their names from ficticious deities that ChatGPT came up with in a spout of creativity and whose names are based on 13 basic functions of the LISP programming language, which has been a cornerstone of artificial intelligence research since the 1960s. If this seems random at first, consider that artificial intelligence is in the process of upending all of society in ways we can't even imagine, and it a very short time, too.

Carysia

Goddess of Beginnings

Cedraios

God of Continuation

Atomis

Goddess of Indivisibility

Consus

God of Construction

Listraia

Goddess of Iteration

Maprion

God of Topology

Equianis

Goddess of Symmetry

Evalenius

God of Comprehension

Defunite

Goddess of Recursion

Conduro

God of Qualification

Quotaris

Goddess of Literalism

Applideious

God of Execution

Lambdessaia

Goddess of Flexibility

Calculate your birthday in the Singularity Calendar

  • Month
  • January
  • February
  • March
  • April
  • May
  • June
  • July
  • August
  • September
  • October
  • November
  • December
  • Day
  • 1
  • 2
  • 3
  • 4
  • 5
  • 6
  • 7
  • 8
  • 9
  • 10
  • 11
  • 12
  • 13
  • 14
  • 15
  • 16
  • 17
  • 18
  • 19
  • 20
  • 21
  • 22
  • 23
  • 24
  • 25
  • 26
  • 27
  • 28
  • 29
  • 30
  • 31
  • Year

Frequently Asked Questions

Ok, I admit it. Nobody has asked me these questions at the time of me writing this. But let's just pretend that you did ask these questions. Here are the answers:

  • Did you come up with the concept of a 13-month calendar?

    No, I did not. There have been many calendar reforms in history and in different cultures, and there have been various unsuccessful attempts at reforming the currently widely accepted Gregorian calendar, some of which proposed using 13 months instead of 12. There's plenty of information on Wikipedia about it.

  • A singularity can refer to different things. The Singularity Calendar was named after the Technological Singularity, a hypothetical point in time when "technological growth becomes uncontrollable and irreversible, resulting in unforeseeable consequences for human civilization". Many associate with this event the arrival of Artificial General Intelligence (AGI), because this AGI would theoretically be able to improve upon itself ever faster and become too complicated for us humans to understand or control. At the time of writing this, some prominent voices from within the industry of AI think that AGI might just be around the corner.

  • It's not my fault! You see, I asked ChatGPT to think of some technological elements that there are exactly 13 of and that relate to artificial intelligence. The response, I received were 13 basic functions in the programming language LISP, which has been a bedrock of artificial intelligence research for over 60 years. I then asked it to come up with 13 ficticious deities based on the names and purposes of these functions and these were the result. I admit that the conversation was a little more complicated than that, but essentially, this is it. If you want to know more about these deities and what they are derived from, scroll up and click on them.

  • It means that this calendar is perennial, in other words: it doesn't suffer from the inconsistency that plagues the Gregorian calendar. In every month, the first day is a Monday, and the last day is a Sunday, perpetually, every year. No longer do we have to look up what day of the week the 17th is. If you can divide by 7 with rest (4rd grade math), you know that it's a Wednesday. No longer do you have to count the knuckles on your fists to figure out how many days this month has. The answer is always 28.

  • It's a special day! It doesn't belong to any of the months. It doesn't even belong to any of the weeks. It's simply New Year's Day. We should even stop all of the clocks for the entirety of that day and just go for a picnic. Except for it's in November.

  • The Singularity Calendar celebrates the advent of Artificial Intelligence, which many were convinced of when OpenAI released ChatGPT to the public on November 30th 2022. So for this calendar, that's the beginning of the new era. The Era of AI. This means that December 1st of the Gregorian Calendar is now the first of Carysia, the first month in the Singularity Calendar.

  • I realize that you will unlikely try to make use of this calendar for practical purposes of writing down your appointments if you can't keep track of which day it is on there. The good news is that the calendar lists the Gregorian dates on the bottom of each day, and these dates do line up every year (i.e. Consus 20th always corresponds to March 14th) in all cases with one exception. Leap Day in the Singularity Calendar is one day after Leap Day in the Gregorian calendar which means that in leap years, March 1st corresponds to Leap Day in the Singularity Calendar, and in other years, it corresponds to Consus 7th. This was done as not to interrupt a complete week with a leap day. Instead, it is inserted between two weeks. The same is true for New Year's day. Unfortunately, this means that the weekdays in the Singularity Calendar and the Gregorian Calendar cannot line up. In leap years, they offset by two days, otherwise 1 day each year.