• 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

          There’s always a remainder day, and it’s not precisely 24 hours. That’s why we have leap years and sometimes leap seconds. You could get rid of that by cramming all of the time into one day of varying length. This year, maybe it’s 29.75 hours. Maybe next year it’s 31. Astronomers and physicists could fight it out and see how closely they can match the previous year.

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        1 year ago

        Better yet they only had 10 months, and the remaining 60ish days of the year were just 乁⁠(⁠ ⁠•⁠_⁠•⁠ ⁠)⁠ㄏ

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        1 year ago

        The Roman year originally started in March (the month of Mars) because that’s when the war season started. January and February were at the end of the year and originally weren’t named at all.

        But at some point, the Romans had a problem with one of their politicians. He had a one year term. To get rid of him, they moved the new year to January. It was supposed to be temporary but somehow we’re still living with the results of that lifehack.