Re: Calendar changes

Michael Adams wrote:
>
> If you are to change the calendar, then why not 12 months of 30 days
> each and have the leap and extra 5 or six days be a feast/special
> month or like. Some religious time if you like?  Also have ten day
> weeks, so you would have three weeks in a month?
The ancient Egyptians had something like your extra 5/6 days.  IIRC,
they had 12 months of 30 days, and then five feast days at the end of
the year.  I don't know how they handled leap years.  I know they
must've, because the year was set up so that the first day of the year
was determined by the star Sirius (the brightest star in the sky).  I
don't know if they had weeks.  As someone else already mentioned, a
ten-day week wouldn't go over very well with Christians, Jews, and
Muslims.

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