Comment on YSK about the French Republican Calendar
isyasad@lemmy.world 4 days agoI really like the idea of 10 days because of where weeks come from. In many languages, the names of days trace back to major celestial bodies (Sun, Moon, and the five planets). This is very obvious in English with Sunday (Sun), Monday (Moon), and Saturday (Saturn) but less obvious with other days because the names were converted into Germanic gods (Thursday = Thor’s day, though the planet should be Jupiter).
Well now that we know there’s two more planets: Uranus and Neptune, and the Earth is also a planet… it would kinda make sense to add 3 more days to the week for Uranus, Neptune, and Earth.
The actual French republican calendar just uses numbered days ie primidi, duodi, tridi similar to Chinese and Portuguese but imo that’s so boring.
HubertManne@piefed.social 4 days ago
yeah its just kinda long.
isyasad@lemmy.world 4 days ago
Yeah unless it comes with 5-day weekends 😢
Pyr_Pressure@lemmy.ca 4 days ago
I wouldn’t mind 6 days on 4 days off
isyasad@lemmy.world 4 days ago
6/4 sounds great. I think 3/2/3/2 is also an option, or if there’s one more work day, maybe 3/1/4/2. If only five days of work, we could try the most radical 1/1/1/1/1/1/1/1/1/1 (work every other day). 5/5 is actually pretty reasonable and maybe my favorite. It’s actually pretty workable for employers too because if you need someone working every day, it’s simple to just hire two people. Makes it easier for everybody, and doesn’t it sound great to have three 5 day breaks every month?
I think the biggest advantage to a 10 day week is really just that it accommodates more variation in schedule, and not every person or every industry has to have the same work week. It certainly helps being an even number, so scheduling anything for every other day is easier.
I’m actually so down for calendar reform but it seems like it’s probably an impossible task.