As a software developer, I would rather give up the 1.25 days off a year just to not have to work around some weird monthless and weekless date every year.
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Norgur@kbin.social 7 months agoAny solution that has some form of "oh those days? Nah, we don't count those" is disqualified immediately in my book.
superduperenigma@lemmy.world 7 months ago
PotatoesFall@discuss.tchncs.de 7 months ago
Hm fair enough. Let’s make the intercalary days part of the last week of the last month before they happen for programming/numbering purposes. So Midsummer is just June 31st, or the 11th day of the 18th week.
name_NULL111653@pawb.social 7 months ago
laughs in Egyptian…
They had 5 or 6 intercalary holidays to celebrate the new year and adjust to the rise of the Nile (and we’d adjust it to astronomical time with leap years). It actually worked really well, and kept the people happy with a 5-day rest and celebration each year (something this world could definitely use).
Norgur@kbin.social 7 months ago
They didn't have software though and you don't know if it either worked well (since the ppl who kept this system going were the same people who wrote about it) nor of it kept ppl happy. Besides: you can do that without the "not counting those" part, couldn't you?
Godnroc@lemmy.world 7 months ago
I think of it like the appendices of a book. The main story is counted with numbers, page 10, but the appendix is counted with Roman numerals, page X. While adding to the appendix increases the number of pages in the book, it does not change the length of the story.