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

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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...

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year 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