The Buckets by Greg Cravens for December 31, 2016
Transcript:
Tomorrow is a whole new year? Why doesn't it start on Monday? That's when the work week starts, not the year. Can't we get em both to start on the same time? Not without changing, I dunno, our speed around the sun or something. We're not going around the sun at the right speed? The whole mess is pre-digital.
Blame the Babylonians for that. As well blame them for the 12 / 24 hours a day (they used a base 12)