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Idk why Japan is being credited for being the logical one when they simply copied the Chinese system/characters
Chinese weekdays make a lot more sense as well
Pretty much all of East Asia is a knockoff of China.
Alright, so I assume I started WWIII there, better get to my bunker. /s
Any system that does not have 13 months of 28 days each, plus a remainder day to keep pace with the sun, is not logical.
Having a “remainder day” is weird, but it’s hard to avoid. It really sucks that 365 doesn’t divide nicely into much at all. 5 and 73 are the only non-trivial answers. five 73 day months? Can’t even call it a month at that point.
I guess 13x28 + 1 does indeed make most sense…
May as well embrace the weird, cuz we dont orbit in exactly 365 days anyway. So theres gonna be leap year type adjustments anyway.
1 odd day from 13x28 is the perfect excuse for a new holiday too. And avoids having to figure out is it a weekday or not. It gets to be neither, a unique special holiday not tied to religion, nationality, culture, politics, etc (though many oppose it for reasons within those topics).
speaking of leap days, I also considered using a quad-year as a unit, integrating the leap day as a standard day. 365.25x4=1461. But that only divides by 3 and 481, even worse!
And would require special handling in 3/4 of what are now centuries
I just realized that about September-December, that’s mindblowing and hilarious
I hope the guy responsible for that got stabbed
Petition to rename July to to something derived from Brutus (feel free to help me out with the sound shifts).
Bruly
Pronounced just like July
the roman year started on march 1 so thats how they numbered months. English never caught up.
The Roman year originally started in March (the month of Mars) because that’s when the war season started. January and February were at the end of the year and originally weren’t named at all.
But at some point, the Romans had a problem with one of their politicians. He had a one year term. To get rid of him, they moved the new year to January. It was supposed to be temporary but somehow we’re still living with the results of that lifehack.
Neither did other European languages
*some. For example Croatian, Czech, Polish and Ukrainian are using local names.
Never said “all”
Better yet they only had 10 months, and the remaining 60ish days of the year were just 乁( •_• )ㄏ
Polish:
A contacting one
Fierce
War God
A flowery one
Earth Goddess
Maggot (especially cochineal*), but also knawel
A linden one
A sickle one
A heathery one
A shives one
Leavesfall
A lump/clod onedeleted by creator
You win.
What year is it, Japan?
Reiwa 5, everyone knows when all the emperors acceded to the throne, silly.
It’s not like the “we thought this guy was born on this day (we were wrong)” is a great system but at least it doesn’t randomly reset either like with the Japanese years
Or I hope it doesn’t. Probably would mean end times or something.
The Romans had a 10 month calendar that started with March. Then later they added January and February to better match the lunar cycles in a year. Hence the mismatch of the numbered months.
I always assumed this is why the leap day is in february, since it would coincide with the end of the roman calendar
I think it’s in February because it’s the shortest month, and it’s the shortest month because it was the last one, with all the remaining days.
The thing I’m not sure about is why some months have 30 days, some 31 ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Its the shortest month because it was considered the unluckiest month and they literally wanted it to be over sooner.
I was under the impression that July (Julious) and August (Augustus) were the two shoehored in
No they just renamed Quintilis (5th) and Sextilis (6th) to July and August
It sort of bothers me that we don’t change them back.
I’m all about sex month
That’s even dumber!
Same in Chinese. Also for days of the week.
星期一 Day One of the Week 星期二 Day Two of the Week 星期三 Day Three of the Week 星期四 Day Four of the Week 星期五 Day Five of the Week 星期六 Day Six of the Week 星期日／星期天 "Sun" Day / "Sky" Day of the Week (Sunday)Yeah, but try counting the days in those months
Going to memorize the elements
Traditional week
- Sunday
- Moonday
- Fireday
- Waterday
- Woodday
- Goldday
- Soilday
But a new version just dropped:
Modernized week
- Hydrogenday
- Heliumday
- Lithiumday
- Berylliumday
- Boronday
- Carbonday
- Nitrogenday
They’re named after planets, in the ancient sense of “lights in the sky that don’t stand still”.
- Sunday
- Moonday
- Marsday
- Mercuryday
- Jupiterday
- Venusday
- Saturnday
I’m slightly mentally slow and still don’t remember all of the months in a year. I’m 23 years old.
Same. Which month is July again? June? What month is that? Sorry, I just can’t remember the months that don’t have notable events associated with.
July is the one with the fireworks but warm.
June is father’s day …
… Aka the month where it’s finally warm enough but the mountains are still buried in snow so I still have to wait to go four wheeling.
But then having 5 elements for weekdays.
Fire, water, earth, air, Avatar state?
moon, fire, water, wood, metal, earth, sun
Finnish:
oak month (or central month if you don’t use current meaning of the word)
pearl month
ground month
clearing the forest of trees for field month
planting seed month
summer month (or plowing month by original meaning)
hay harvesting month
grain harvesting month
autumn month
muddy month
death month
yule month
Finland would have a higher population if they would just get rid of Death Month.
It’s just a name, like the Forbidden Month or the Month of No Return, all the months have names like that in the Season of Terror.
