Re:History of Zero-Based Months?
by masklinn on Saturday August 27, 2022 @07:05AM
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Because we don't.
Which is probably because it's too fine a granularity, especially historically: even an ordinal month-day had limited use to preindustrial contexts were time-boundaries were necessary quite fuzzy owing to the vagaries of communications or transport.
Technically you don't need years either, but chunky boundaries are useful as both reference points and communication shortcuts.
Which is probably because it's too fine a granularity, especially historically: even an ordinal month-day had limited use to preindustrial contexts were time-boundaries were necessary quite fuzzy owing to the vagaries of communications or transport.
Technically you don't need years either, but chunky boundaries are useful as both reference points and communication shortcuts.