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Originally Posted by baochan
Metric calendar! I love it! Too bad there's no way to make 100-day years, everything could be nice and orderly.
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Actually, Romulus (who founded Rome!) had it right in the first place: ten months. They alternated between short months and long months because as everyone knows the moon's phases only last 28.5 days. (The festivals kept getting getting out of season so the priests had to fix the calendar every few years and throw in a really long month or two to get everything synced up.)
I think Julius Caesar is your man. He set up this situation. But he might have gotten it right after all because in Julius' calendar the h2os are promised to be shipped October 1, Mercury's day in Ceasar's calendar. In English we named it after Woden but Mercury seems appropriate for the present discussion because Mercury is the messenger of the gods, AKA: good old Canada Post!