• 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.