Re:Four-day week means 'I don't waste holidays on chores'
by samatman on Wednesday December 30, 2020 @10:02PM
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I'm not sure why lengthening the months got folded in with lengthening the week.
Months and weeks are completely independent, we could have an eight-day week and keep months precisely as they are now.
I think it's way too weird to actually do it, but it's less weird than having a cycle of months that's longer than a year.
Islam manages, somehow, to have a cycle of months that's substantially shorter than a year, and doesn't throw in an extra month from time to time like Jews do. I've always found that exceedingly strange, but I guess you get used to it.
Months and weeks are completely independent, we could have an eight-day week and keep months precisely as they are now.
I think it's way too weird to actually do it, but it's less weird than having a cycle of months that's longer than a year.
Islam manages, somehow, to have a cycle of months that's substantially shorter than a year, and doesn't throw in an extra month from time to time like Jews do. I've always found that exceedingly strange, but I guess you get used to it.