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Not sure if you’re serious, but the 7-day week as so entrenched that no system that breaks it will see any adoption. Maintaining the 7-day week and the 365 day
by e63f67dd-065b 3y ago
Not sure if you’re serious, but the 7-day week as so entrenched that no system that breaks it will see any adoption. Maintaining the 7-day week and the 365 day year is non negotiable for any kind of calendar reform.
- andersa 3y agoWhile we obviously can't change the length of the year in days, is there any actual reason to have a 7 day week beyond "that's what we've always done"?
- hanche 3y agoThat’s really a strong reason, is it not? I have no idea for how long humanity has tracked the seven day week, but suspect it’s been well over 2000 years. That’s a lot of tradition to discard.
- adzm 3y agoGoes all the way back to the Babylonians, 4000 years ago, at least
- marcthe12 3y agoAlot of religions kinda use the week for weekly prayer (all Abrahamic religions) so you kinda stuck with it since you need to take that into account
- mongol 3y agoYeah, momentum. I can't think of what authority would be able to change it and make it be globally followed. A tradition of thousand years, with roots in religious texts. I don't think it is within anyone's power to change it.
- njarboe 3y ago7 days for the moon to go in half a cycle. Full to half. New moon to half moon. A pretty good demarkation of a period of time between one day and a month (full lunar cycle).
- clort 3y agoThe moon cycle is approx 28 days, which is 7x4. The height of tides are rooted in this but have 7 day periods of increasing, decreasing, increasing, decreasing. I don't know if thats reason enough to continue with it, but possibly part of the history
- stvltvs 3y agoThis is a pretty common approximation, but the average lunation is closer to 29.5 days.
- fragmede 3y agoBut those 365 days don't have to all fit into weeks. Take 364 days, divide those evenly into 7-day weeks, and then have the one (two if leap) new days be not part of the weeks. Call it Caturday or something. Hold a contest.
- spc476 3y agoThe fine article talks about that---there was Jewish resistance to the idea because they felt that the Sabbath was always the 7th day and that would get out of sync.
- RupertEisenhart 3y agoI always figured the funnest thing would just be not to give it a name, and then when people ask be like, well yesterday was Sunday and tomorrow is Monday. But the more reasonable proposal I heard was just to call it New Years Day/Weekend, depending?
- nemo8551 3y agoDay’ymcdayface. That’s how that will go down. Referring to “boaty mcboatface”