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If we're gonna do that let's just make it a five day holiday and a 360 day year. 360 is a much more convenient number than 364, you can make it ten 36 day months of four nine day weeks or twelve 30 day months of three ten day weeks.
To be clear for anyone who isn’t familiar, the ~28 days vs ~30 days thing comes from the number of days it takes to complete an orbit vs the number of days it takes for the sun to be in the same relative position, respectively. Historically, calendars have followed the latter because that’s what dictates what phase the moon is in. The discrepancy happens because the earth is orbiting the sun at the same time the moon is orbiting the earth.
Sure, five six day weeks or even six five day weeks. There are a lot more options when your prime factors don't include ugly numbers like 13 and 7.
I think they tried that around the French revolution and the paris commune used it. It didn't stick around because we're not allowed to have nice things
The glib, history-as-storybook reason I heard was that they didn't bother or think to to rework the almanacs, so all the very necessary work of food production was still using old calendar. Kinda hard to stick to a new calendar when your cheese and bread is still marked by the old one.
I always assumed it had to do with the difficulty of using a different calendar than all your neighboring countries, but I don't really know
Nah, they're the reason we have the metric system. Well, them and Napoleon. If they had been able to prove the new calendar as useful, it would have spread with him.
True enough
They clearly didn’t do enough public executions to make these changes stick.
Or 12 months with 30 days in the month and the week is five days + holiday week which doesn't fall within a month.