All because of religion: rested in the seventh day.
I think 6 day weeks would be ideal (4 days work 2 days off).
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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!
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If it were an even number those body builders wouldn’t have had to argue over it
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Its also inconvenient that the number 10 only really has2 and 5 as factors.
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Maybe it’s deliberate though - as the week doesn’t divide well it forces weekly rituals.
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The French had 10-day weeks for a while.
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Inconvenient how?
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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
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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.
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
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