Wtf?

[tris-]

according to google there is 52 weeks in a year.

and there is 4 weeks in a month, correct?

so how come if you divide 52 by 4 you get 13?!

im sure there is 12 months a year, so where is this mystical 13 month coming from?

 

[Thorwyn]

and there is 4 weeks in a month, correct?

no, because 7*4=28

 

[Lamp]

You're looking at it from the wrong perspective. The weeks screw things up because they're not equal weeks

Jan 31
feb 28
mar 31
apr 30
may 31
jun 30
jul 31
aug 31
sep 30
oct 31
nov 30
dec 31
Total days = 365

Most people use 52 weeks as being a year. However if you need to be more accurate you need to consider that there there are 365 days in a year. 365 divided by (7 days in a week ) = 52.14 weeks. If you want to get more technical you have to take into account that there are really 365+1/4 days in a year. Ever four years February has 29 days instead of 28.

 

[Bahumat]

Just stop fucking about with calendars and do something produtive....stop wanking in the cookie jar and clean the cookies! dont be like Lamp!

 

[Lamp]

The weeks aren't equal

There isn't exaclty 4 weeks in every month

 

[old.Tohtori]

There used to be the 13th month.

Weeks were 7 days long.
Months had 4 weeks and 28 days.
etc.

Then some f*cknut decided a more "practical" system would be in place. Probably(if i remember it correctly), because of the 12 hour time system.

Probably same "smart" people who thought daylights saving time is a good idea.

The real spooky thing is, i thought about this today and here we are, tris- posting another thread that even remotely concerns me.

 

[tris-]

13 months would make more fucking sense.

 

[Lamp]

13 months would make more fucking sense.

Another "time of the month". Just what men need

 

[tris-]

yes BUT it would be more predictable with only 28 days in each of the 13 months

none of this "oh is it 30 days in april or 31?" bullshit, and each month the bitch is getting angrier earlier and earlier.

plus isnt the moon on a 28 day cycle? its obviously a 'natural' thing. as with women and their 28 day cycles. so whyu do we fuck it up with 30 and 31 days, and 29 days every 4 years?!?!

FFS

 

[CorNokZ]

I blame The Sun and The Univers

 

[kivik]

I think Islam countries follow another calendar that has 13 months. After the moons cycle.

 

[Raven]

Kivik is correct, some of my backward clients work in lunar months and it pisses me right off.

 

[tris-]

lunar months makers fucking sense thats why

 

[Lamp]

For werewolves yeah

 

[tris-]

i believe werewolves is an old myth based on women flipping out when it was a full moon. more commonly known today as PMT

 

[Lamp]

You heard of that new all-female delivery company ?

Its called UPMS. They deliver whenever the fuck they want to

 

[Levin]

I'd be all for 13 months a year.. hey one extra salary.

 

[Golena]

Friday the 13th of the 13th..

No fooking thanks!!


I imagine it's probably got something to do with the fact that when your cutting up a circle it's much easier to cut it into 12 bits than 13 bits, but I could be wrong.

 

[Binky the Bomb]

Then some f*cknut decided a more "practical" system would be in place. Probably(if i remember it correctly), because of the 12 hour time system.

Probably same "smart" people who thought daylights saving time is a good idea.

The real spooky thing is, i thought about this today and here we are, tris- posting another thread that even remotely concerns me.

Julius Ceaser (Invented August after his middle name I think), something about astrology and crop cycles.

 

[Binky the Bomb]

Julius Ceaser (Invented August after his middle name I think), something about astrology and crop cycles.

My bad, was astrologers (just checked, but ceaser did ick there arses to make it more accurate).

 

[Iceforge]

My bad, was astrologers (just checked, but ceaser did ick there arses to make it more accurate).

And as far as I am aware, it was through Cleopretra that he got the solution to the problems with the calendar he was trying to make, i.e. the extra day every 4 years to make it fit with the cycle of the sun. Without that extra day, the reasons would change by 1 day over 4 years in average or over 1460 the seasons would have travelled a full circle through the calendar year

EDIT: Through Cleopretra does ofc. mean that she had her smartheads working on it, not that she made up the extra day. Could be, but doubt it

 

[Iceforge]

Oh, and by the way! If you ever doubt if a month has 30 or 31 days, use your HANDS!

Make a fist and count on the LEFT hand to the right the ups and downs of your knockles!

Up = 31, down = 30, only exception is Febuary!

left little finger/January = 31
bump between fingers/Feb = 28/29
Tip/Marts = 31
Bump/April = 30
Tip/May = 31
Bump/June = 30
Tip/July = 31, now you start on the other hand as you reached the end of the fist!
Tip/August = 31
Bump/September = 30
Tip/October = 31
Bump/November = 30
Tip/December = 31

Tada! You got it all accurate, and easy to remember, just using your fists

 

[Golena]

Tada! You got it all accurate, and easy to remember, just using your fists

The other option is to punch someone in the face until they give you their calendar. Also only uses your fists.

 

[Iceforge]

The other option is to punch someone in the face until they give you their calendar. Also only uses your fists.

Nah, then you need a person to punch as well! But definitely the more entertaining choise if you got a person with a calendar standing near you!

Ofc it will mean they will cry afterwards, asking stupid questions like "why didn't you just ask?" and stuff like that

 

[old.Tohtori]

Oh, and by the way! If you ever doubt if a month has 30 or 31 days, use your HANDS!

Another fun thing to do si the place your right(or left) palm on your mouse and use your finger to double-click the clock in the lower right-hnad corner of the screen

also leaves your left/right hand free for "other" use.

I agree, i'd really want the 13th month back. It was, if i remember correctly, used for celebration etc anyway, so it would be the "holiday" month.

 

[Binky the Bomb]

Well, I suppose they could nerf each month 50%, bump feb by a day to bring it up to spec. Then bring in the shamies to work there mojo to create more months. It would have to be midgard to do it as the Albions would just bitch to GOA to to give them more time, whilst the Hibernians would just keep to themselves and not participate. (Sorry, had a wierd dream about my time in DAoC, and my old server)

 

[Lamp]

30 days have September, April, June & November
All the rest have 31
Except February, who was a problem child and ran away from home to become a porn king and drug baron

 

[Ezteq]

according to MoAlFayed.com Prince Phillip had the thirteenth month assasinated because it was interfering with his plans to infiltrate the population with crocodile people from his home planet of Mah UzbndUnt Ey.

 

[Iceforge]

Another fun thing to do si the place your right(or left) palm on your mouse and use your finger to double-click the clock in the lower right-hnad corner of the screen

also leaves your left/right hand free for "other" use.

I agree, i'd really want the 13th month back. It was, if i remember correctly, used for celebration etc anyway, so it would be the "holiday" month.

And your method works really really well if outside in the nature away from technology!!!

Sort of why I mentioned something on the body, as all people, bar perheaps those using prostetics, always got their hands with them to use

 

[old.Tohtori]

And your method works really really well if outside in the nature away from technology!!!

You don't have a laptop instead of your arm?

what kind of a nerd do you call yourself?!