• alvvayson@lemmy.world
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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.

    • Makeitstop@lemmy.world
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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.

    • Breve
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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.