A repeatable month
Each month has 36 regular days. Even-numbered months have a 37th day; month 10 has a 38th in leap years.
A calendar proposal
A different rhythm
for the same year.
What if the year had ten months, and every metric week made room for four days of focus and two days of rest?
Metric Calendar rearranges the familiar 365 or 366 days into a repeating structure. The year still begins on January 1. The way we divide it changes.
Example metric month02 / 10
Room for a rhythm.
6 weeks · 36 regular days
| Focus1 | Focus2 | Focus3 | Focus4 | Rest1 | Rest2 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01 | 02 | 03 | 04 | 05 | 06 |
| 07 | 08 | 09 | 10 | 11 | 12 |
| 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 |
| 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 |
| 25 | 26 | 27 | 28 | 29 | 30 |
| 31 | 32 | 33 | 34 | 35 | 36 |
37
One extra pause.Bonus Rest Day · outside the metric week
10 months. 60 metric weeks. One shared year.Explore the evidence & limitations
The idea in a minute
A familiar year.
A new arrangement.
The length of the day stays the same. So do the year number, January 1 alignment, and leap-year rule. Here is the proposed structure.
A six-day metric week
Four Focus Days followed by two Rest Days, repeated six times per month. These labels describe the proposed rhythm.
Space between cycles
A Bonus Rest Day closes months 02, 04, 06, 08, and 10, outside the regular metric week. No day disappears.
See the whole year
Ten months. One pattern.
Five pairs of months: 36 + 37 days.
5 × 73 = 365 days, plus one in a leap year.
01Month
36 days02Month
37 days03Month
36 days04Month
37 days05Month
36 days06Month
37 days07Month
36 days08Month
37 days09Month
36 days10Month
37 / 38 daysFocus DaysRest DaysExtra days follow the grid: Bonus Rest Days in even months; Leap Day in month 10.
Why explore it?
A simpler pattern.
Some bigger questions.
Regular month layouts make the calendar easier to describe. Whether that makes life easier is a question for people, organisations, and research.
Learn a predictable structure
Every month begins with Focus Day 1. The six regular metric weeks have the same layout.
Try a planning overlay
Keep Gregorian dates alongside Metric dates to explore a different view of your year.
Examine the trade-offs
A six-day cycle shifts against the seven-day week. Family schedules, observances, and services need deliberate attention.
A proposal, with open questions
The arithmetic is defined.
The benefits need testing.
Studies of shorter working time provide useful context. They do not test this calendar’s ten months or its six-day metric week, and they do not guarantee productivity or well-being gains.
Read the research & limitationsChoose your next step
Make the idea concrete.
For the curious
What’s your date?
Convert today, a birthday, or a milestone and see the calculation.
Open the converter For potential adoptersTry it alongside your calendar.
Start with dual dates, then consider what a careful pilot would involve.
Explore adoption For a closer lookCompare the systems.
Inspect the structure, day counts, and practical compromises.
See the comparison