It’s always rubbed me the wrong way that Oktoberfest doesn’t happen in October OR the 8th month.
thats because the roman year started in march and october was the 8th month in their calendar.
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…
There’s always a remainder day, and it’s not precisely 24 hours. That’s why we have leap years and sometimes leap seconds. You could get rid of that by cramming all of the time into one day of varying length. This year, maybe it’s 29.75 hours. Maybe next year it’s 31. Astronomers and physicists could fight it out and see how closely they can match the previous year.
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).
Same thing in Brazilian Portuguese…
And they’re not even correctly numbered! Stupid Julius and Augustus ruined friggin EVERYTHING
Sep - 7 Oct - 8 Nov - 9 Dec - 10
As someone else already pointed out: it was January and February that were added later. July and August just replaced the old names.
To add for anyone that’s new to this, January and February were originally considered not a real part of the year because everyone was hunkered down for the winter.
