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[-] Grass@sh.itjust.works 9 points 1 year ago

Octember it will be after October. The names will be just as incorrect as they have been for way too long but if anyone wanted the names and order to correspond to their own meaning it would have been fixed by now.

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[-] MonkderZweite@feddit.ch 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

What was the original idea of our calendar? And did every month have 8 weeks or so? Were weeks longer?

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[-] Kaliax@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

I adore this shit lol

[-] CeleryFC@beehaw.org 7 points 1 year ago

Pretty sure this is what the Mayans used.

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[-] potterpockets@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 year ago
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[-] EyIchFragDochNur@feddit.de 6 points 1 year ago

Huh am I missing something?

13 x 28 = 364 but a year has 365,2425 days

[-] NamelessGO@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 year ago

The new year day is a transition day and is not in the calendar, but rather in between years

https://theperihelioneffect.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/Ce57evjXEAAKE1h-1024x849.jpg

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[-] Enkers@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 year ago

Jesse, what the hell are you talking about??

Before we get too crazy, let's consider for a second the importance of 12 in units of measure. It shows up in time: minute, second, length (imperial ft), and I'm sure many other places.

The benefit is it's evenly divisible by 2, 3, and 4. How would we define seasons with 13 months?

[-] Masimatutu@mander.xyz 8 points 1 year ago

I don't see the problem, really. Base twelve is neat and all, but we're not directly going to do a lot of math with the number of months in a year, are we? And who says all seasons have to be equally long, or be defined in terms of whole months in the first place? Most people I know don't define seasons directly on the months, since they vary from year to year.

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[-] AdmiralShat@programming.dev 8 points 1 year ago

Base twelve only because Babylonians.

[-] Enkers@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 year ago

I mean, it was a pretty good idea. The only reason we happen to be so 10 centric is because that's how we happened to evolve our manipulators.

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[-] rustbuckett@lemmings.world 6 points 1 year ago

What would we call the 13th month?

[-] dan@upvote.au 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Since the 12th month is December, a 13th month should obviously be called Undecember (the undec- prefix meaning 11 in Latin).

Better yet, just stick the new month in the middle of the calendar, but don't rename the months that have numbers in their name. It already worked once (thanks, Romans).

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[-] hiramfromthechi@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

Triskaidekatember

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[-] rustbuckett@lemmings.world 5 points 1 year ago

I've definitely thought about this.

[-] Littleborat@feddit.de 5 points 1 year ago
[-] Kindness@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 year ago

364/28 = 13

The Human Calculator Calendar by Scott Flansburg: https://calendars.fandom.com/wiki/Human_Calculator_Calendar

As thewitchslayer says, the lunar month has 29.5 days. English common law has a "lunar month" which is 28 days though.

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[-] brianrlawson@midwest.social 5 points 1 year ago

Lousy Smarch weather.

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