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.
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.
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.
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.
Sure, five six day weeks or even six five day weeks. There are a lot more options when your prime factors don’t include ugly numbers like 13 and 7.
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.
True enough
They clearly didn’t do enough public executions to make these changes stick.
Or 12 months with 30 days in the month and the week is five days + holiday week which doesn’t fall within a month.
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.
Why not five 73 day months? Thinking outside the box here.
A great point. I had thought we would want to make a bunch. However, even the Caesars ran out of steam renaming months.
What if we also made all of those months October, so that we can have Halloween 5 times a year instead of once?
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