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Wikipedia tells me it was come up with in 1923, long after both global trade and the industrial revolution. You need all the countries to agree on the same calendar system or commerce is really hindered. It was way too late to change in 1923.
The French tried to change the calendar to something more sensible and closer to metric after the French Revolution. It did not last long.
Things seem to work just fine with the calendar we have anyway.
Also, it could be worse. The Mayans had three different calendar systems- a solar calendar, a lunar calendar, and a 260-day calendar which we don't know the origin of, but I like Dr. Ed Barnhart's theory that it's very close to a human gestational period.
I don't think the french calendar would have ever worked, as humans seem to always divide their working into 7 day weeks.
That’s a bold statement. This was a western invention that spread from Greece around the 5th century. Not always
It's literally recorded in the Torah, which was at least 1000 years before that
The Torah is still in the west dog. You think the whole world is Europe and the Middle East? China divided them into weeks of ten.
Thought you were talking about in general, my bad
I was responding to you saying humans seem to always divide by 7. It’s an interesting point you make that it’s been done for a long time but we are saying two things.
You actually made me think of something I’m gonna go ask the Hebrew specialist, did 7 days in the Hebrew Bible mean 7. I know 7 is their number for a lot just like 10,000 in Chinese. :)
My lemmy client only shows the comment without context, so unless I have a good memory, etc.
lol, I have a horrible memory so I get you. Kind of you to explain! :)