Calendarssuch

Calendarssuch is a speculative term used in discussions of calendrical design and temporal data modeling to describe a highly configurable calendar system that can be tailored to different cultural, agricultural, or computational requirements. The term is a coined blend of calendar with a generic connective such as that serves as a placeholder for calendar properties in abstract discussions.

In calendarssuch models, users can define arbitrary year lengths, months, days per month, leap rules, and epoch definitions, plus support for variable weeks and named cycles. This flexibility is intended to accommodate diverse timekeeping traditions and to support software that must interoperate with multiple calendrical schemes.

The aim is to enable cross-cultural calendrical comparison and to support software that must interoperate with multiple schemes. By allowing explicit configuration of temporal units and constraints, calendarssuch offers a framework for exploring how different calendars relate to one another and how they can be implemented in digital systems.

A calendarssuch configuration could specify a 13-month year with ten 28-day months and three intercalary days, or a 400-day year divided into eight months. Such examples illustrate the kind of variations the concept envisions, rather than prescriptions for real-world adoption.

Limitations include lack of formal standardization, potential complexity in date arithmetic, and the risk of confusing users who expect fixed Gregorian-like calendars. Related topics include calendars, temporal databases, and ISO 8601.