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minus-squarePeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up2·22 hours agoI’ma start a revolution where we use duodecimal metric for everything, including time.
minus-squareWanderingThoughts@europe.publinkfedilinkarrow-up1·22 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-up1·17 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-up1·11 hours agoNot if you divide by 5. It gets you 73 days each.
minus-squarePeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up2·edit-27 hours 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-squareDanquebec@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up1·4 hours agoDon’t subdivide the 73-day seasons. Instead, subdivide the year into 73 5-day weeks. A year made up of 5 seasons and 73 weeks.
minus-squareWanderingThoughts@europe.publinkfedilinkarrow-up2·15 hours ago13 months of 4 weeks + new year’s day (+leap day) actually fits perfectly.
minus-squarePeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up1·7 hours agoI wouldn’t call having an unassigned remainder “perfectly”. And always, leap day fucking shit up lol
I’ma start a revolution where we use duodecimal metric for everything, including time.
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
Don’t subdivide the 73-day seasons.
Instead, subdivide the year into 73 5-day weeks.
A year made up of 5 seasons and 73 weeks.
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