I edited the title because my grammar is terrible
The ancient Roman is what?
Made
A fun watch: https://youtu.be/vunESk53r5U?si=D_capAX5nr9ccQGZ
bastards could have at least not fucked up october november and december
“But my ego demands I name a month after myself and I’ll be damned if it’s one of those bloody cold months at the end of the year!”
It’s two months. July: Julius. August: Augustus.
Two different emperors. July is named after Julius Caesar and August is named after Augustus.
Ah, thought it was both Augustus since his name was like Julius Caesar Augustus.
His full name was Gaius Julius Caesar Augustus but he was most commonly called Octavian. He was born Gaius Octavius but when he was named successor to Julius Caesar he adopted Caesar’s name.
Huh. The more you know…
Let’s see, if we had 10 months we’d need 5 months of 36 days and 5 of 37 days. Just a little over 5 weeks being 35 days. Maybe 10 months of 35 days and a special month of 15 days.
(I still prefer 13 months of 28 days with 1 extra day, but superstitious people don’t like 13.)(I also like my personal idea of 6 day weeks with 4 days working and 2 days off. That leaves 1 odd week of 5 days.)
Alright, hear me out. We go with the 10 months of 35 days and a special month of 15 days, but the 15 days is just one giant celebration. Just 15 days of nothing but arts and crafts and hanging out with friends.
Chillember, love it.
I mean, March used to be the first month. Traditionally, New Year used to be a spring holiday. In Ukraine, the original lyrics of the Carol of the Bells sing about the spring beginning
Ukraine recently moved it back though to align with the Western New Year celebrations if I recall correctly. More of a “fuck Russia we’re gonna do our own thing” cultural move.
That’s not what we moved. We moved Christian holidays 2 weeks back to align with Gregorian calendar. Because the Orthodox Christians would count it by Julian Calendar (with Christmas on 7th January). But yeah, we did do that to be closer to European countries than to Russia
March or April being the first month honestly would make so much more sense
Not for Christmas. Too many equate the holidays with the end of the year celebrating.
I mean, just make it Easter instead
It should be Easter anyway. Jesus was born. So what - we’re all born at some point.
But then Jesus rose from the dead? Now that’s worth celebrating.Also bunnies and eggs for some reason?
Our calendar still kind of sucks.
It’s off by 6hrs/yr.
The Persian calendar is off by 1sec/yr.
But it’s year zero is about the Prophet Muhammad…
So only Iran and Afghanistan use it.
It looks like the Iranian calendar would have each year of a different length, since
The Iranian New Year begins at the midnight nearest to the instant of the northern spring equinox, as determined by astronomic calculations for the meridian (52.5°E)
This would make this kind of calendar extremely complicated to handle especially when not using computers
Humans sure are strange. Mathematical astronomical geniuses but still stupid enough to believe in superstitious fairy tales they call religion. But perhaps that’s part of the (evil) genius too. The people who create religions are the ones who know how to psychologically control the masses.
And that ancient Roman’s name? Julius Caesar.
Not kidding. My preferred source
ha ha ha! i knew it was gonna be HC!
Reminder that we work for free tomorrow.
😳
Edit: never mind, I’m not a victim of this. I guess there are some benefits of being an HOURLY capitalist slave.
You’re apparently a salaried capitalist slave.
If we are making up calendars why don’t we have 13 months of 28 days leading to 364 days. This means every month has 4 weeks of 7 days and an extra day a year which we can make a celebration day that doesn’t land on a day of the week. So every year every day lands on the same day of the week and an extra day (or two on leap years) that aren’t part of the typical week
Calendar app devs will love the migration project.
So every year every day lands on the same day of the week and an extra da
Can you imagine never getting your birthday off?
That’s a great point. Imagine being a Monday birthday
wow, until becoming attached to the current calander in my youth i had always believed this would be more efficient, you really gave me a great reason for the Gregorian
Children may have the closest weekend assigned as birth date
Like in East Asia where people technically change their age all at the same date: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_Asian_age_reckoning
