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Re:The Death and Life of the 13-Month Calendar by philistine on Saturday October 27, 2018 @11:38PM (#18319058)
Weeks are exceedingly important constructs! They're the whole reason any hare-brained scheme never amounted to anything.

They are used by religious communities. When your god says you must do something on Sunday or Saturday or Friday, you're not going to listen to anyone trying to tell you we don't need any of those. I mean you're fighting against multiple gods if you're trying to change the nature of weeks. Just like all the past attempts, you'll fail.

I am an atheist and I know this.

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Re:The Death and Life of the 13-Month Calendar by Tsubasachan on Sunday October 28, 2018 @05:35AM (#18319861)
True. Even in my thoroughly atheist and liberal nation of birth I get payed double when I work on Sunday. I have no special feelings for it, Sunday or Monday its all the same to me. But thousands of years history and culture can't be erased easily.
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