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I average out the spring and fall changes and just set my clocks 39 minutes ahead year-round.
this post was submitted on 25 Oct 2023
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Yeah that part didn't make sense... If they proposed a 13 months, 28 days/month calendar or one without months then ok, but the Julian calendar is just the Gregorian calendar shifted 13 days...
Fine. What's the term for a calendar that labels every day of the year in sequential order without using any other divisions like months?
Day of the year calendar, but you could look into the seasonal calendar, the international fixed calendar and ISO week date.
I'd like to give some context here: the julian calendar is the older one that doesn't take into account that leap years are more complicated that just every fourth year. It was still a good idea to standardize the calendar. Before that, the months were shorter and the Senate decided were to put arbitrary days to make it fit