It’s all COMPLETELY arbitrary. Heck there are various ways of deciding what months there are, how long they last, and when they start relative to the fixed points of solstices and equinoxes. Some calendars are based on lunar cycles, most on the solar year… and there are or were some even more arcane systems. Heck even “our own” calendar has been changed from the Roman 10-month system to our current 12… and the Roman new year was celebrated near the ides of March.
My own favorite calendrical fantasy is to add another month so we have 13 months each exactly 28 days long, with an extra day added “somewhere” (probably as new years day) that’s not in the monthly calendar… and another leap day, also not inside the system every four years (approximately). With a little care, most holidays could be celebrated on a long weekend… and it could be the SAME long weekend every year.
Yeah, yeah: dream on. But I think it would be nicer than what we have… if it could happen by some miracle.
It’s all COMPLETELY arbitrary. Heck there are various ways of deciding what months there are, how long they last, and when they start relative to the fixed points of solstices and equinoxes. Some calendars are based on lunar cycles, most on the solar year… and there are or were some even more arcane systems. Heck even “our own” calendar has been changed from the Roman 10-month system to our current 12… and the Roman new year was celebrated near the ides of March.
My own favorite calendrical fantasy is to add another month so we have 13 months each exactly 28 days long, with an extra day added “somewhere” (probably as new years day) that’s not in the monthly calendar… and another leap day, also not inside the system every four years (approximately). With a little care, most holidays could be celebrated on a long weekend… and it could be the SAME long weekend every year.
Yeah, yeah: dream on. But I think it would be nicer than what we have… if it could happen by some miracle.