Message from @Thomas Morrow
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just some are 31
and every now and then 29 to compensate for systematic discrepancies
the same goes for clocks being given 'extra' seconds etc now and then
in the past the hyper accuracy never mattered all that much, apart from agricultural reasons, and even then most of it was done by 'feel', aka 'harvest when it's READY, not when the calendar sais so'
nowadays we need micro-second accurate timekeeping, even keeping doppler shifts, and RELATIVITY in mind, for something as simple as GPS
sattelites in space move faster than us on the surface, relatively, and thus, time goes slower for the sattelite than for us, and that needs to be accounted for.
there's actually alot of 'happy coincidences' about timescales on earth, having a tidally locked moon for example, and the fact that our year fits SUPER neatly into a base-12 system, resulting in 12 months, with each month having a rotation of the moon around the earth; the moons rotation around the earth being almost perfectly synched up with the earth's rotation is one of those happy coincidences
it's SUPER consistent, and that consistency is likely the reason so much in life is based on that system, animals, fish, trees, seasons, tides.
and yes, women.
/end rant
I guess calendars are relevant to homesteading so i'll talk about it
I think we should reform the calendar though to the George Eastman calendar
13 months, 28 days every time, no shifting holidays from month to month
I know this group will accuse it of bugman
but this is just good organization and gets rid of confusions
we could even adopt the calendar and rename months in honor of significant figures (August obviously needs to remain for Augustus)
@chris#0919 the old system used lunar months, which happen to be close
