• GiantFloppyCock@lemm.ee
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      1 year ago

      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.

      • buckykat [none/use name]
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        1 year ago

        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.

        • Dalvoron@lemm.ee
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          1 year ago

          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.

        • GriffithDidNothingWrong [comrade/them]
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          1 year ago

          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

          • Wheaties [she/her]
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            1 year ago

            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.

          • pooh [she/her]
            hexagon
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            1 year ago

            They clearly didn’t do enough public executions to make these changes stick.

    • Egon
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      3 months ago

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    • jrubal1462@mander.xyz
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      1 year ago

      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)

          • MNByChoice@midwest.social
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            1 year ago

            A great point. I had thought we would want to make a bunch. However, even the Caesars ran out of steam renaming months.

          • pooh [she/her]
            hexagon
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            1 year ago

            What if we also made all of those months October, so that we can have Halloween 5 times a year instead of once?

    • infuziSporg [e/em/eir]
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      1 year ago

      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.

    • TrashGoblin [he/him, they/them]
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      1 year ago

      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.