# When will I be able to use the Calendar? **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [December 20, 2011, 1:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-will-i-be-able-to-use-the-calendar/606839 "2011-12-20T13:12:23Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![guizot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guizot/32/3636_2.png) [@guizot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/guizot)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2011, 1:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-will-i-be-able-to-use-the-calendar/606839/1 "2011-12-20T13:12:23Z")
I’ve been waiting for six years, and it is, after all, the only reason I joined this place. ---
**Author:** ![Frodo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/frodo/32/302_2.png) [@Frodo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frodo)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2011, 1:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-will-i-be-able-to-use-the-calendar/606839/2 "2011-12-20T13:32:01Z")
Tomorrow I think, or the day after… ---
**Author:** ![Moonlitherial](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/4bbf92/32.png) [@Moonlitherial](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moonlitherial)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2011, 1:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-will-i-be-able-to-use-the-calendar/606839/3 "2011-12-20T13:44:45Z")
Tomorrow never comes ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Frodo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/frodo/32/302_2.png) [@Frodo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frodo)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2011, 1:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-will-i-be-able-to-use-the-calendar/606839/4 "2011-12-20T13:51:04Z")
> [@Moonlitherial](#): > > Tomorrow never comes ☹ It comes, but just when the clock is turning to 12:00 and you are all “yay Its tomorrow!”,it becomes today ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2011, 3:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-will-i-be-able-to-use-the-calendar/606839/5 "2011-12-20T15:32:30Z")
> [@guizot](#): > > I’ve been waiting for six years… How would you know, if you haven’t got the calendar? ---
**Author:** ![Duckster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/duckster/32/1244_2.png) [@Duckster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duckster)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2011, 4:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-will-i-be-able-to-use-the-calendar/606839/6 "2011-12-20T16:17:38Z")
I think it’s being tweaked. The new Mayan version should be ready in 2013. ---
**Author:** ![MikeG](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mikeg/32/4329_2.png) [@MikeG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MikeG)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2011, 5:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-will-i-be-able-to-use-the-calendar/606839/7 "2011-12-20T17:07:52Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > How would you know, if you haven’t got the calendar? He probably counts the scratches on the wall of his cave same as you, Wilson, and me! ---
**Author:** ![guizot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guizot/32/3636_2.png) [@guizot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/guizot)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2011, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-will-i-be-able-to-use-the-calendar/606839/8 "2011-12-20T18:44:10Z")
> [@Frodo](#): > > It comes, but just when the clock is turning to 12:00 and you are all “yay Its tomorrow!”,it becomes today ☹ Life sucks, doesn’t it? ---
**Author:** ![Giraffe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/giraffe/32/129_2.png) [@Giraffe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Giraffe)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2011, 6:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-will-i-be-able-to-use-the-calendar/606839/9 "2011-12-20T18:46:38Z")
If one were so inclined, one could replace the useless Calendar link with a [link to one’s recent posts](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=634778). I think that would be nice. ---
**Author:** ![Frodo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/frodo/32/302_2.png) [@Frodo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frodo)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2011, 7:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-will-i-be-able-to-use-the-calendar/606839/10 "2011-12-20T19:03:23Z")
> [@guizot](#): > > Life sucks, doesn’t it? And then you die. ---
**Author:** ![guizot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guizot/32/3636_2.png) [@guizot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/guizot)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2011, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-will-i-be-able-to-use-the-calendar/606839/11 "2011-12-20T19:08:36Z")
> [@Frodo](#): > > And then you die. Today or tomorrow? ---
**Author:** ![Frodo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/frodo/32/302_2.png) [@Frodo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frodo)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2011, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-will-i-be-able-to-use-the-calendar/606839/12 "2011-12-20T19:14:36Z")
> [@guizot](#): > > Today or tomorrow? Impossible to know, without the calendar. ---
**Author:** ![Rhythmdvl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/85f322/32.png) [@Rhythmdvl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhythmdvl)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2011, 8:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-will-i-be-able-to-use-the-calendar/606839/13 "2011-12-20T20:35:21Z")
Have you tried using a sieve? Very hard to scratch tally marks into it, but it can be done. ---
**Author:** ![Cicero](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cicero/32/3594_2.png) [@Cicero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cicero)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2011, 1:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-will-i-be-able-to-use-the-calendar/606839/14 "2011-12-21T01:28:51Z")
Most of these jokes are very week. ---
**Author:** ![Digital\_is\_the\_new\_Analog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a88e4f/32.png) [@Digital\_is\_the\_new\_Analog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Digital_is_the_new_Analog)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2011, 1:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-will-i-be-able-to-use-the-calendar/606839/15 "2011-12-21T01:35:17Z")
I could loan you one of the schedules from work…I like to think of them as calendars, since they change every day… [Note to anyone who I actually work with. I’m joking! Really! I respect our schedules. Yeah.] -D/a