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I'ma start a revolution where we use duodecimal metric for everything, including time.
That's how we ended up with 12 months of varying length in a year and it's a mess.
It's a problem no matter how you divide the year
That's why I propose changing the orbit of the earth, too
Not if you divide by 5. It gets you 73 days each.
Ok, but now subdivide the 73 day month-analogs into week-analogs.
I can see calling the month analogs "seasons", but 73 is a prime number so you're boned. We need subdivisions smaller than that for practical purposes
Don't subdivide the 73-day seasons.
Instead, subdivide the year into 73 5-day weeks.
A year made up of 5 seasons and 73 weeks.
Like I said, we need smaller subdivisions than 73 for practical purposes.
just having 5 season per year and nothing else simply isn't practical. Imagine having to wait 70 days to the weekend 💀. We need to have a week analog, and no matter what it's not going to fit cleanly in the seasons.
Actually, splitting the season into 10 day weeks with a 3 day weekend, and then ending each season with a 3 day holiday could work, not opposed to that lol
But I don't like 73, it's not power of 10 or 12 so it doesn't fit a decimal it duodecimal metric calendar. The universe sucks for not confirming to the way we order to count.
I want to have like... A day, a decaday (week), hectoday (season), kiloday (year), megaday (millenium).
And in the other direction, a day, a deciday (hour), centiday (minute), milliday(second) etc.
So my plan is to change the orbit and rotation of earth to force reality to match our preferences
13 months of 4 weeks + new year's day (+leap day) actually fits perfectly.
I wouldn't call having an unassigned remainder "perfectly". And always, leap day fucking shit up lol