Figuring out days and dates

Do you know what day it is?

       Keeping up a tradition.

            Plan A is just to keep track from the start, kind of like what we may have heard about how a person stranded on an island might do, like notch a tree or rock or something.

            Plan B is to use astronomy to figure out some relatively easy day, like either equinox, or either solstice. Now how to do that is relatively easy, if you know a little. If you don't, then look it up. Then keep going from there. And if you are off by a day, so be it. It is still better than nothing.

            My suggestion is to keep track of the day of the year, as well as the day of the week.

            Now one could even change the whole calendar system, like going to the Julian calendar system that is in our history. But I suggest giving your priority to just trying to figure out the basic calendar system as a start. And my vote is solar, vice lunar. We humans have done both.

            As in the preceding paragraph, we could even start something new, like using ideas like A.D, and B.C. has been done in the past.  Call it Moment Zero for a new start, and go from there.  I still wonder why the year always starts on January 1st, vice the winter solstice, about two weeks earlier. Anyway, it is just an idea to think about. As always, the situation will probably dictate what we end up doing.

            As for me, I will try Plan A. And knowing the day of the week is important, to me. Mostly I want to know when Sunday is for religious and rest reasons. And hopefully some radio stations will be on the air, and I can update dates that way, too. And as to dates, like birthdates, and traditional holidays (like Christmas), they are a big deal to me, too. Any reason to celebrate during hard times will be a big deal, to me.