The ancient Romans made many attempts to fix the calendar year before landing on 12 months and leap years
The ancient Romans made many attempts to fix the calendar year before landing on 12 months and leap years
To tame a hopelessly disorganised Roman calendar, Julius Caesar added months, took them away, and invented the leap year.
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If we are making up calendars why don't we have 13 months of 28 days leading to 364 days. This means every month has 4 weeks of 7 days and an extra day a year which we can make a celebration day that doesn't land on a day of the week. So every year every day lands on the same day of the week and an extra day (or two on leap years) that aren't part of the typical week
So every year every day lands on the same day of the week and an extra da
Can you imagine never getting your birthday off?
wow, until becoming attached to the current calander in my youth i had always believed this would be more efficient, you really gave me a great reason for the Gregorian
Children may have the closest weekend assigned as birth date
Like in East Asia where people technically change their age all at the same date: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_Asian_age_reckoning
That's a great point. Imagine being a Monday birthday
I knew it had a name.
Calendar app devs will love the migration project.
A lot of devs can't even handle timezones right, I wouldn't trust us with calendar migration either
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I've been saying this exact thing for years, but good luck selling the idea to people who are either superstitious idiots, hate prime numbers, or both. "Oh noes, we can't divide 13 into halves and quarters whatever shall we do?" Might as well keep using the stupid thing we've always used. Never mind that I'm 45 and still haven't bothered to learn which months have 31 days vs. 30 days. Because I know how to look at a calender/phone.
Who knows what months have 31 days? Psychopaths that's who
What about 10 months of 36 days each. Change weeks to 6 days with 2 day weekends. Equinoxes, solstices, new years, and leap years get their own days outside of months and weeks.
I've always said that we should get the 12 days of the summer and winter solstice off every year. Got to rest in opposite ways
You don't have to stick to 7 day weeks. Personally I'm a fan of 6 day weeks, with 4 days work 2 days off. And then you have more weeks and weekends.