• BorgDrone@lemmy.one
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    1 year ago

    And also, it should still be 12 months, just 4 months (December, January, June and July) should have 5 weeks while the other months have 4 weeks

    But they you still have irregularities. Easier to just add Undecimber to the calendar.

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      1 year ago

      You would then lose the ability to divide the year into pieces, since 13 is prime.

      No half-yearly, quarterly or bi-monthly rhythm.

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        1 year ago

        Our quarters don’t follow the actual half anyway, with the solstice and equinox not matching up with the months.

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        1 year ago

        The divide is easy, and can be marked on the calendar like a holiday.

        • 3 months and a week
        • 6 months and two weeks
        • 9 months and three weeks
        • New years (or day before or after, take your pick)

        Much more convenient than making the whole calendar inconsistent.

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        1 year ago

        Those divisions are already skewed in a 12 month calendar though because the number of days is not similarly divisible:

        Half year (6 months)

        1st half: 181 days (182 for leap years)

        2nd half: 184 days

        Quarter year (3 months)

        1st quarter: 90 days (91 for leap years)

        2nd quarter: 91 days

        3rd quarter: 92 days

        4th quarter: 92 days

        A leap year has 366 days which is evenly divisible by 2 and yet even then a “half year” at the monthly level doesn’t contain half the days of the year. Having uneven yearly divisions in a 13 month calendar would not be a new problem.