• Krachsterben@feddit.de
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    1 year ago

    Idk why Japan is being credited for being the logical one when they simply copied the Chinese system/characters

    Chinese weekdays make a lot more sense as well

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      1 year ago

      Any system that does not have 13 months of 28 days each, plus a remainder day to keep pace with the sun, is not logical.

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        1 year ago

        Having a “remainder day” is weird, but it’s hard to avoid. It really sucks that 365 doesn’t divide nicely into much at all. 5 and 73 are the only non-trivial answers. five 73 day months? Can’t even call it a month at that point.

        I guess 13x28 + 1 does indeed make most sense…

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          1 year ago

          May as well embrace the weird, cuz we dont orbit in exactly 365 days anyway. So theres gonna be leap year type adjustments anyway.

          1 odd day from 13x28 is the perfect excuse for a new holiday too. And avoids having to figure out is it a weekday or not. It gets to be neither, a unique special holiday not tied to religion, nationality, culture, politics, etc (though many oppose it for reasons within those topics).

          • gxgx55@lemmy.world
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            1 year ago

            speaking of leap days, I also considered using a quad-year as a unit, integrating the leap day as a standard day. 365.25x4=1461. But that only divides by 3 and 481, even worse!

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      1 year ago

      It’s not like the “we thought this guy was born on this day (we were wrong)” is a great system but at least it doesn’t randomly reset either like with the Japanese years

      Or I hope it doesn’t. Probably would mean end times or something.

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    1 year ago

    Finnish:

    oak month (or central month if you don’t use current meaning of the word)

    pearl month

    ground month

    clearing the forest of trees for field month

    planting seed month

    summer month (or plowing month by original meaning)

    hay harvesting month

    grain harvesting month

    autumn month

    muddy month

    death month

    yule month

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    1 year ago

    I’m slightly mentally slow and still don’t remember all of the months in a year. I’m 23 years old.

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      1 year ago

      Same. Which month is July again? June? What month is that? Sorry, I just can’t remember the months that don’t have notable events associated with.

      • agent_flounder@lemmy.one
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        1 year ago

        July is the one with the fireworks but warm.

        June is father’s day …

        … Aka the month where it’s finally warm enough but the mountains are still buried in snow so I still have to wait to go four wheeling.