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He does have a point tho
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fuck that, 28 months of 13 days
I think we should have 365 months of 2 days each (the days are half as long)
Also all of the nighttime days should be named after me because you can look up at the sky and it's all pretty n stuff
im surprised you don't want 1 month with 2 days (the days are extremely long)
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We need to revturn to the pre-Republic Roman system of ten 28 day months and a liminal, unaccountable 90ish day period during the winter where dates don't exist. We need to have a high priest pulling apart bird guts to tell us when in March we can start counting days again. We need a system so subjective and variable that you occasionally need a 500 day year to reset everything either becuase of compounding error or because the priest in charge got murdered and no one replaced him for two months.
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They were just revolution brainstorming, let them cook
Gonna sit down and contemplate the plow today
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Or Swatch Internet Time.Or stardates.
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also when you say "a month from now" that would be a defined amount of time
I've always assumed that meant you incremented the month (i.e next month on this date) but it turns out some people use an arbitrary day increase and you only find out when it fails.
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13x28 is 364, what about the 365th day?
Just make it into a big holiday that doesn’t take place on any official day of the week, it’s just its own thing existing outside the normal structures of modern life.
Or, we could ignore it and enjoy the confusion as the seasons slowly drift into different months as an effort to hide the increasingly obvious signs of climate change.
If we're gonna do that let's just make it a five day holiday and a 360 day year. 360 is a much more convenient number than 364, you can make it ten 36 day months of four nine day weeks or twelve 30 day months of three ten day weeks.
Make it five 6-day weeks and twelve 30-day months, you got yourself a deal. If we want to fit the moon thing like in OP a month needs to be ~29.5 days and 30 would be closest. Twelve months also allows us to keep lining months up with seasons and use quarters for stuff.
To be clear for anyone who isn’t familiar, the ~28 days vs ~30 days thing comes from the number of days it takes to complete an orbit vs the number of days it takes for the sun to be in the same relative position, respectively. Historically, calendars have followed the latter because that’s what dictates what phase the moon is in. The discrepancy happens because the earth is orbiting the sun at the same time the moon is orbiting the earth.
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I think they tried that around the French revolution and the paris commune used it. It didn't stick around because we're not allowed to have nice things
The glib, history-as-storybook reason I heard was that they didn't bother or think to to rework the almanacs, so all the very necessary work of food production was still using old calendar. Kinda hard to stick to a new calendar when your cheese and bread is still marked by the old one.
I always assumed it had to do with the difficulty of using a different calendar than all your neighboring countries, but I don't really know
Nah, they're the reason we have the metric system. Well, them and Napoleon. If they had been able to prove the new calendar as useful, it would have spread with him.
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You decide when that is yourself. If you're having a rough day and you can't be arsed? You take the 365th. It's like a yearly "grandparents funeral".
I independently came up with the 13 x 28 idea to align monthly things like bills to weekly things like paychecks.
My solution was to make that odd day a holiday and celebrate the really awesome, cool, and good-looking dude that came up with this new calendar. (Me)
That is no worse than leap day. Far better than 73 five day months.
To make this work, you'd have to add the detail of having a leap week every 6 years or so, sometimes every 5 years.
Remember, a solar year is about 365.24 Earth days.
Every year has 1-2 intercalary days that aren't part of any month.
The problem is then that your months slowly drift out of alignment with the moon.
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That is the day we give our offerings to the ancient ones
13 X 28 is only 364. What about the 365th day?
Bonus day for new year's eve
To shreds, you say?
Yes please I would like to spend my entire life having every birthday be on a fucking Wednesday thank you
This is also how the railway callendar works in the UK.
so we're reinventing the shire calendar then? :)
Apparently Tolkien based that on Saint Bede's and Anglo-Saxon calendars (ofc he would)
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