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catididnt · 1 year ago

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Steven Brust has that in his Jhereg books. It’s a 5 days in a week, 4 weeks in a month calendar, but they have some ‘old magic’ and the Vlad occasionally gets annoyed with spells needing a fortnight (14 days) instead of 3 weeks (14 days).

If I remember right, it’s all ‘translated’, which means it won’t say “fortnight” just 14 days or 7 days (and ditto with other units). It’s a very small thing, among other things, but it is funny every time

Fortnight should be two nights. Fortweek should be two weeks. You agree.

#but there should be 5 days in a week not 6 (and especially not 7!)#because we have 5 fingers on each hand BUT ALSO 5 is easier math (at least in our base 10 system)#a rest period at the end of each year is a good idea - we can use it to restart the year #the Earth refuses to be live according to our numbers so we need to adapt to it #(ancient egyptians did have a 5 day week but did not adjust for years being uneven and since their society lasted a long time the years got #very off eventually - I think the people just adapted cuz that's what people do)#I have never tried to get time to make sense #the only reason I don't like the 24 hr clock is because I can't split the numbers up as easily #if it was a 25 hr clock it would work better (again base ten)#I also dislike that 60 sec in a min and 60 min in an hour but 12 hr in a day #24 hr in a day!!#there is no pattern to go from 60 to 60 to 24 #they're all divisible by 6 and 4 and 3 but not in an even way #they made all the other units base 10 - they should've done it to time too

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