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We already have leap years that add a day. The months have different lengths, so the days of the week fall on different dates all the time. More like it's alw
by Falkon1313 8y ago
We already have leap years that add a day. The months have different lengths, so the days of the week fall on different dates all the time. More like it's always been out of sync, and this would bring it _into_ sync.
- geofft 8y agoYes - it would bring a lot of things into sync, but the tradeoff is that you wouldn't be guaranteed that seven days after a Monday is another Monday. That is true and has been true since before the Julian calendar even existed, as far as I can tell.
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- jacobolus 8y agoStrict 7-day weeks were a Jewish thing from sometime before 500 BC, unrelated to the Roman calendar. Even in other cultures that split time into weeks based on lunar phases, weeks were adjusted to match the moon (a lunar week is ~7.4 days). From what I understand the Romans didn’t adopt a 7-day week as a core part of the calendar until after the emperor had converted to Christianity. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nundinae https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nundinae
- TimTheTinker 8y agoYes, but leap years don't interfere with the fixed weekly succession of 7 named/numbered days.