• Krachsterben@feddit.deEnglish
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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

    • themeatbridge@lemmy.worldEnglish
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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.

      • gxgx55@lemmy.worldEnglish
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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…

        • AngryMob@lemmy.oneEnglish
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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.worldEnglish
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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!