• GiantFloppyCock@lemm.ee
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      Just make it into a big holiday that doesn’t take place on any official day of the week, it’s just its own thing existing outside the normal structures of modern life.

      Or, we could ignore it and enjoy the confusion as the seasons slowly drift into different months as an effort to hide the increasingly obvious signs of climate change.

      • buckykat [none/use name]@hexbear.net
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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.

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          Make it five 6-day weeks and twelve 30-day months, you got yourself a deal. If we want to fit the moon thing like in OP a month needs to be ~29.5 days and 30 would be closest. Twelve months also allows us to keep lining months up with seasons and use quarters for stuff.

          • 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.

    • Egon [they/them]@hexbear.net
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      You decide when that is yourself. If you’re having a rough day and you can’t be arsed? You take the 365th. It’s like a yearly “grandparents funeral”.

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      I independently came up with the 13 x 28 idea to align monthly things like bills to weekly things like paychecks.

      My solution was to make that odd day a holiday and celebrate the really awesome, cool, and good-looking dude that came up with this new calendar. (Me)

    • infuziSporg [e/em/eir]@hexbear.net
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      To make this work, you’d have to add the detail of having a leap week every 6 years or so, sometimes every 5 years.

      Remember, a solar year is about 365.24 Earth days.