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After listening to Eight Days A Week by the Beatles for around the 245th time I wondered about what and Eight Day A Week calendar would look like so I decided to make one. I uploaded it here for peer review.

Overview

The calendar has 8 days a week, 30 days a month, 265 days on common years and 266 days on leap years and starts on year 0.

Name of Calendar

I thought about a few names and the name Beatleian Calendar seemed like the best choice since the Georgian Calendar already existed. If anyone has a better name feel free to share.

Days of the week

I (obviously) put eight days per week instead of seven. The extra day is called Sitarday since looking around, that was the most common way to say that day. Sitarday on the calendar is between Saturday and Sunday and would be a weekend day. Sitarday would be like the hump day of the weekend.

Month names

I decided to keep the names of the months the same for now. I thought about naming each month after the albums but I wasn’t sure how to do that in an easy to say way that wouldn’t get confused for the album itself.

I also thought about naming the months after Beatles girlfriends and wives but there weren’t enough significant wives and girlfriends to make that work.

So for now, the month names are unchanged. If anyone has any comments on what the month names should be or how to make the album names work for a calendar.

Month length

One problem with the Gregorian calendar is that every year you would have to make another one and I would rather not make a bunch of calendars so instead I made it so every month had 30 days each so that the year always ends and starts on the same day and that all the months would be even.

Extra days/Beatles Week

By making the months all 30 days I had 5-6 extra days left over and Eight Days A Week Is not enough to show I care so I created a monthless week called Beatles week that is either 5 or 6 days long that is considered a vacation week that transitions from one year to the next.

Year

The calendar would start on year 0 and starts on the gregorian year 1926 since that is when the first Beatles related person George Martin was born and is the start of Beatles history. The year starts on January 1st even though George Martin was born on January 3 so that it would be easier to use with the Gregorian calendar. The calendar starts on year 0 since when George Martin was born, he was 0 years old

Leap Year

There will be leap years and the rules for the leap years will be the same as the Gregorian calendar the rules are:

Every year that is evenly divisible by 4 is a leap year except (4, 8 , 12,. . )

if the year is evenly divisible by 100 unless (100, 200, 300 . ., common years)

it is evenly divisible by the year 400 (400, 800, . . , leap years)

The Beatleian calendar will start off with year 0 as a leap year.

Date notation

Notating the date is year/month/day so that the longest length of time is first and the shortest length of time is last.

Years before the calendar

Years before year 0 would be notated as negative numbers so for example, my Grandpa was born in the year before 0 so he would be born in the -1 year.

Converting the Gregorian calendar dates to the Beatleian calendar

Depending on the day it could be converted in a few ways.

1. It could be converted symbolically where if their is a holiday that falls on December 3rd on the Gregorian calendar, it could just be put on December 3rd on the Beatlian calendar.
2. If the date included the year, like a birthday, it could be converted accurately depending on when the event occurred on the Beatleian calendar. Here (annadog40.deviantart.com/art/G…) is a link where I show how to convert days from the Gregorian calendar to the Beatleian Calendar.
3. This third method involves calculating the date on a yearly bases so that the dates stay at the same time as they would on the Gregorian calendar. The date of the event would change every year. This is not an optimal method since it would require changing the calendar each year to notate the holiday.

 I think method 2 would be the best for transferring Beatles dates.

Beatley Dates

Here are some dates that could potentially serve as holidays on the Beatleian calendar:

13/7/7 – Ringo Starr ’s birthday

13/10/11 – John Lennon ’s birthday

15/6/17 – Paul McCartney ’s birthday

16/2/26 – George Harrison ’s birthday

30/7/7 – Paul meets John

35/10/8 –  Love Me Do /P.S. I Love You released in UK.

37/2/7 – Beatles arrive in the U.S.

37/2/9 –  Debut on ‘Ed Sullivan Show’

38/8/17 – Beatles perform at Shea Stadium.

39//8/1 – Last concert at Candlestick Park

40/6/2 – Pepper released

42/1/29 – Rooftop concert

43/4/7 – Paul McCartney announces the end of the Beatles