Thread 16786880

Why don’t we use 13 months of 28 days each?
>lines up with the moon perfectly
>364 days total
>one extra day outside the calendar as new year’s celebration
>no more leap years
>each 1st of the month is always monday
>no more random offsets
>calendar finally makes sense

>>16786880 (OP)
because rome won, I wish I was trolling, well I am, but doean't change the fact

>>16786880 (OP)
God decreed the number of months to be 13. Stop trying to reinvent the wheel, the french tried and failed.

> no more leap years
huh?

>>16786900
Frogs have leap years.

>>16786880 (OP)
>A lunar cycle, or synodic month, which is the time it takes for the Moon to go from one new moon to the next, takes approximately 29.5 days.

The traditional Chinese calendar works like that. But they have 12 months, some years they have to repeat one month, so the year has 13 months.

>>16786880 (OP)

>>16786900
twosday is the leap day

Being born on a Wednesday would suck.

>>16786880 (OP)
>lines up with the moon perfectly
Actually it doesn't. You have it lined up with the sidereal period of the moon, but not with the moon phases, which are 29.53 days long per cycle.
Rounding to thirty days, that's 12 months plus five celebration days to spread throughout the year.
And you're still gonna need a leap day even in your calendar.

>>16787022
>>16787022
The Muslims and Hebrews used to do the same thing, too.

>>16787604
Leap day is not needed if the special new years day varies in lenght
It can be like 23h and 22 minutes long one year. 24h and 3 minutes next year

>>16786880 (OP)
Look up the kodak callendar.
The company was very innovative.

>>16786880 (OP)
>Why don’t we use 13 months of 28 days each?
Because the ratio of the distance from the earth to the moon and the earth to the sun is an irrational number, so while that might make counting more simplified, it won't conserve the seasons, you would still need leap days to even get close or just random days you don't technically count as days, then you just reset the year at sunup/sundown instead of trying to count the hours.

>>16786880 (OP)
Sunk costs.

It would be an objectively better system, but the cost of readjusting the existing infrastructure built around the current, slightly worse system far outweighs the benefits.

Why do we even need months bruh

February 1st should just be called "Day 32"

>>16788154
Months are lunar tracking while days and years are solar tracking.

>>16788164
What are seconds and minutes

>>16788228
Goy tracking

>>16786880 (OP)
I would just use the numbers 001 to 365
Who needs months.
For example today is 260-2025

>>16787606
Doesn't the Islamic calendar have no checks like leap years & so just rotates throughout the year lol. And it supposedly comes from Mohammed so they're stuck with it & can't change it

The new month could be called Trumptober

>>16790628
It's based on lunar cycles, so it ends up being 354 or 355 days per year. It makes the fasting holidays interesting because when they're in the middle of winter, you don't have to fast very much but fifteen years later you're quite annoyed by needing to fast for eighteen hours. The further away from the equator you are, the more the calendar slowly blesses or fucks you.

>>16788228
Mussolini's ghost fart tracking

>>16786880 (OP)
time keeping is a rabbit hole you do not want to get sucked into, you've only began to scratch the surface

>>16786880 (OP)
Earth doesn't orbit Sun with same rate as Moon orbits Earth.

>>16788228
Divisions of the day are from observing the course of the sun and sundials quantify that. Water clocks are a separate notion of the time it takes for a volume to empty. Another idea of time is astronomical mechanical clocks. The idea of time is a bit different in each. Our idea of time is different. More removed/abstract, received rather than observed, and absolute.

>>16788228
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PRqccGG-AYo