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Jumping off from this story, I found https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Week https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Week to be a mind-broadening read. --- Has anyone consid
by akkartik 13y ago
Jumping off from this story, I found https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Week https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Week to be a mind-broadening read.
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Has anyone considered making months and years non-interlocking the way weeks and months are today?
A day is the obvious time period based on the most salient object in our skies.
A lunar month is the next most obvious time period based on the second-most salient object in our skies.
A year has immediate value in helping keep track of seasons.
So my proposal is to replace the existing two parallel hierarchies:
1 week = 7 days;
1 year = 12 months = ?? days
with the following parallel hierarchies:
1 year = 365/366 days;
1 month = 4 weeks = 28 days
I wonder if this has been tried.
- deleted 13y ago[deleted]
- pygy_ 13y agoIIRC, the 28 day month was the norm before the introduction of the Gregorian calendar, and it is still used, for example in the Islamic calendar (that's the reason why the fasting month of Ramadan drifts from one year to the next).