13! A prime number indivisible into anything. Ugh!
Comment on YSK about the French Republican Calendar
Nemo@slrpnk.net 16 hours ago
They also had metric clocks.
But in any case, I’m more intrigued by the idea of the calendar with thirteen 28-day months. Too many religions are invested in the question of what day of the week it is to move away from a seven-day week.
JubilantJaguar@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
Makeitstop@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
I’ve seen people object to a 13 month calendar based solely on the idea that you can’t divide the year into quarters. But it’s actually really easy to remember. A quarter is 13 weeks, or 3 months and 1 week. So Q1 ends a week after month three, Q2 ends 2 weeks after month six, Q3 ends 3 weeks after month nine, and q4 ends after month 13 aka the end of the year. And since the calendar doesn’t change, you don’t even need to remember it, just mark the quarter ends once and you’re done forever.
Just compare that to the unnecessary complexity of the Gregorian calendar and the effort it takes to remember basically anything that changes from year to year, or what day of the week any given date or holiday falls on, or even just which months have 30 days and which have 31.
elephantium@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
13! is definitely not a prime number, but it’s too large to be useful in this context (I know, I know, you didn’t actually MEAN 13-factorial, but I’ve studied enough maths that I couldn’t help it).
Nemo@slrpnk.net 12 hours ago
Fine! Four months of thirteen weeks, and no more complaining!
BastingChemina@slrpnk.net 7 hours ago
Yes, they also decided to change the time to decimal time.
The day was divided into 10 hours, each hour was 100 minutes …