https://xkcd.com/2846

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I average out the spring and fall changes and just set my clocks 39 minutes ahead year-round.

  • blackbrook@mander.xyz
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    11 months ago

    Where did you get the idea that the Julian calendar doesn’t have months? The Gregorian calendar we use now made a tiny tweak to it to reduce drift, but is nearly the same.

    • Kecessa@sh.itjust.works
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      11 months ago

      Yeah that part didn’t make sense… If they proposed a 13 months, 28 days/month calendar or one without months then ok, but the Julian calendar is just the Gregorian calendar shifted 13 days…

      • BOMBS@lemmy.world
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        11 months ago

        Fine. What’s the term for a calendar that labels every day of the year in sequential order without using any other divisions like months?

        • Kecessa@sh.itjust.works
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          11 months ago

          Day of the year calendar, but you could look into the seasonal calendar, the international fixed calendar and ISO week date.

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        11 months ago

        I’d like to give some context here: the julian calendar is the older one that doesn’t take into account that leap years are more complicated that just every fourth year. It was still a good idea to standardize the calendar. Before that, the months were shorter and the Senate decided were to put arbitrary days to make it fit

    • psud@aussie.zone
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      11 months ago

      He means Julian day number. It’s unrelated to the historic calendar