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minus-squareWanderingThoughts@europe.publinkfedilinkarrow-up1·16 hours agoThat’s how we ended up with 12 months of varying length in a year and it’s a mess.
minus-squarePeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up1·11 hours agoIt’s a problem no matter how you divide the year That’s why I propose changing the orbit of the earth, too
minus-squareDanquebec@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up1·5 hours agoNot if you divide by 5. It gets you 73 days each.
minus-squarePeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up1·edit-237 minutes agoOk, but now subdivide the 73 day month-analogs into week-analogs. I can see calling the month analogs “seasons”, but 73 is a prime number so you’re boned. We need subdivisions smaller than that for practical purposes
minus-squareWanderingThoughts@europe.publinkfedilinkarrow-up2·9 hours ago13 months of 4 weeks + new year’s day (+leap day) actually fits perfectly.
minus-squarePeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up1·40 minutes agoI wouldn’t call having an unassigned remainder “perfectly”. And always, leap day fucking shit up lol
That’s how we ended up with 12 months of varying length in a year and it’s a mess.
It’s a problem no matter how you divide the year
That’s why I propose changing the orbit of the earth, too
Not if you divide by 5. It gets you 73 days each.
Ok, but now subdivide the 73 day month-analogs into week-analogs.
I can see calling the month analogs “seasons”, but 73 is a prime number so you’re boned. We need subdivisions smaller than that for practical purposes
13 months of 4 weeks + new year’s day (+leap day) actually fits perfectly.
I wouldn’t call having an unassigned remainder “perfectly”. And always, leap day fucking shit up lol