• chaosCruiser
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      21 hours ago

      That addresses the calendar problem, which is another pet peeve of mine. Oh, where do I even begin. The calendar system is just the next level of curses and barrels of rotting worms.

      At least time units have fixed, but inconvenient conversion multipliers. Months and years involve numbers that aren’t even constants!

      Just when you thought it couldn’t possibly get any worse, someone reminds you about time zones. That’s just pure cosmic horror.

      It’s a miracle we don’t trigger a nuclear meltdown every week while using a system like this.

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        This will either sooth you because it’s so nice comparatively, or enrage you that it’s not the standard everywhere already but

        The Ethiopian calendar has twelve months, all thirty days long, and five or six epagomenal days, which form a thirteenth month. A sixth epagomenal day is added every four years, without exception.

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          Ethiopians are clearly very smart people. Take that white supremacists!

          Ancient Romans just loved convoluted systems, which were later inherited by the rest of Europe. The French revolution fixed most of that mess by simplifying it and getting rid of the quirky designs. They also tried to fix time units and the calendar, but that just didn’t stick for some reason. Meanwhile, Ethiopians were already using a sensible calendar that has a good way to mitigate the messy properties of Earth.