Imagine if Europe decided there was 6 week days and America decided there was 7
for some time soviet union decided they’ll have 5 day week and then 6 day week https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_calendar#Five-day_weeks
Shortly after the revolution the French attempted a 10-day calendar.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_Republican_calendar#Ten_days_of_the_weekThe reason vast majority of cultures has 7 day week is that lunar month has 28 days, so that it can be neatly divided into four seven day weeks. It was important for timekeeping and because hunter-gatherers could forage more easily during full moon nights
My gamer brain read “frag” instead of “forage”. Now I imagine primitive Quake players bunnyhopping through the forest on full moon nights to hunt for food. Help.
i mean this is not a massive stretch. i heard an account of (ww2?) soldiers using mortar for fishing: one team would shell river, and another team would collect stunned/dead fish safe distance downstream. sometimes civilians got too close but they weren’t particularly concerned about it
… and they probably weren’t particularly tasty either
I did not! Do not drag me into this entire mess.
Pfff nah, it’s because yesterday was Tuesday obviously
If you want to dive into that sort of thing i recomend looking into social constructivist theory, nuts to realise just how much of everything we live our lives by is really a product of people agreeing to do so rather than any struct objective measure.
Exactly, like crypto for example, it has no real world value (in fact it has negative real world value) and the only thing that makes it valuable is that enough people believe it has value.
Money and time are two big ones. They both mean so much to humans but we’re the only ones that have ascribed that value to them.
The only reason the sequence of symbols you wrote say what you wanted to say is because we all agree on what it says.
Depends on how we’re framing it. We agreed on names of days and lengths of weeks based on our culture and tradition, but that’s not really what today “is”, though. What it “is” is the 171st rotation in the current revolution around the sun. No need to agree on anything there. That just is what it is.
Where the rotations started (new years for example) is also of course arbitrary, as is the starting point for each rotation (“midnight”)
Or the starting point in general. Maybe we’ve been running 15 minutes late for everything, since forever.
I reject your reality and substitute my own
It’s Wednesday my dudes.
No, it’s goddamn Tuesday now.
Hmm… Thursday for me. Are we on the same planet?
You could honestly say this about most of reality.
So how about we all agree it’s Saturday.
You have my sword.
Agreed, but let’s wait till tomorrow
