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Intel's calendar works pretty well for planning. ISO 8601 [0] defines a week-date system but Intel doesn't follow it.

There's a Google Calendar setting "Show week numbers" that will show the ISO workweeks in the little month calendar at top left.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_week_date




The calendars on MacOS and iOS also have a toggle (under advanced settings) to display week numbers.

The low-key success of week-number calendars points to what I think was the big reason the Comté calendar never took off: Months are, unless you're working in a maritime environment, an unnecessary intermediary unit of measure, and for most are only valuable for their legacy cultural references. Redefining them should have been a non-starter.

A week-number calendar is great because it's simpler than trying to retrofit a year-month-day structure, yet still allows legacy Gregorian months to be seamlessly overlaid on it. The Intel PDF is a great example of this.




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