Very. I do dialysis every Monday Wednesday and Friday but I have to go 2 days off over the weekend. So Monday I always have more fluids to take off.
Its also inconvenient that the number 10 only really has2 and 5 as factors.
The number of days in a week wasn’t chosen as an arbitrary number, it was chosen because it’s the length of 1 moon phase. 4 phases of the moon is 1 cycle (new moon to new moon), or 1 month (28 days).
The fact that we now have most months with 30 or 31 days is basically a hack to try to line up 12 months to 1 year (1 orbital period of the earth), but that was never going to work!
Eh, that doesn’t really answer it. Months are about 30 days long. First, there are better numbers than 7 to fit in 30. Five 6 says weeks would work much better for this. Second, moon “phases” are completely arbitrary. Really there are only two “phases”, waxing and waning; anything else is arbitrary subdivisions.
The real reason there are seven days in the week is because there are seven moving objects in the sky. (From a human perspective.) There are seven days of the week:
- The Day of the Sun
- The Day of the Moon
- The Day of Mars
- The Day of Mercury
- The Day of Jupiter
- The Day of Venus
- The Day of Saturn
These are the seven days of the week. They’re named for the seven great moving lights in the heavens. Everything else is a fixed star or invisible to human eyes.
13 months would have been 13x28=364 days which could just have an extra filler day (or two when needed for leap years).
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FYI, there is kind of a push toward this, usually by landlords and other bill collectors, who would just love to be able to charge an extra month of rent or bills each year.
There’s no way in Hell under the current leadership in many parts of the world that bills would be multiplied by 12, then divided by 13, and then capped at that. The cap wouldn’t work anyway. The only responsible way to do it would be to charge bills on an annual basis, and divide it by the “number of months” for the “convenience” of the consumer. Then it would just be set up to where all the monthly payments would go down. But yeah, no way they enforce that.
Oh, shit, I was finding the 13-month year a great idea until you made me think about the consequences…
That’s metric months.
Wasn’t (Julius) Caesar and some other dude responsibles for adding 2 months to the year (Augustus I guess) ?
Eh, don’t forget that Julius and Augustus Caesar made months for themselves (July and August). Or is that made up? I’m not really sure. It’s an interesting story though. But Sept- means seven, Oct- means eight, Nov- means nine, and Dec- means ten, so it stands to reason that July and August were disruptively added somehow.
If it were an even number those body builders wouldn’t have had to argue over it
Inconvenient how?
I guess they think 60 seconds, 24h etc are convenient because you can easily split them up in halfs, quarters, 1/6 and so on.
Yeah i don’t understand what op is talking about
yeah I think we should have 6 day weeks although someone pointed out to me 5 day is divisible into the number of days in a year but I can see dropping the size of the week by something close to 15% of 5 starts getting pretty short for a week
Since it’s popular to talk about a 4-day work week (reducing working days from 71.4% to 57.1% of the week), I have an alternative proposal.
73, 5-day weeks, with 3 working days and 2 weekend days each. 60% working days, which scratches that itch for better work-life balance.
February 29… well, have you watched The Purge? It’s a little like that. We don’t like to talk about it.
The French had 10-day weeks for a while.
Metric Week 💚
10 hours per day was already pretty stupid, but the name they gave to the months was worse, like Grapemonth, Frostmonth, Rainmonth, Flowermonth, etc.
Lucky our existing names aren’t stupid! Imagine if April just meant “Bud-opening-month,” or if the rest were named after gods, or festivals, or emperors, or if they were numbered but the order was all wrong. That would be ridiculous.
Not sure on grapes but the other three are pretty easy to match to a season.
I was taught that it’s a seven day week because of the seven visible ‘planets’ the ancients saw in the sky.
Sunday = Sol
Monday = Luna
Tuesday =Twe [aka Mercury]
Wednesday = Wodin [aka Jupiter]
Thursday = Thor [aka Mars]
Friday = Friga [aka Venus]
Saturday =Saturn
Tuesday: Tirs day
Wednesday : Odens day
Thursday: you guessed it Thors day
Etc.
Saturday was Lögardagen, the day for the bath
From scandinavia anyways.
You say tomato, and I say tomato.
I have no knowledge of this ; and would argue the 7 days are because they are prime . If not, it would have long ago be broken up into smaller weeks .
7 days is the Goldilocks zone of that unit of time size . 5 is too small and 11 is too long
Weeks are made up. Like hours and minutes.
No shit.
Which is why we should stop believing minutes and hours and weeks are real
