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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (3 children)

You would then lose the ability to divide the year into pieces, since 13 is prime.

No half-yearly, quarterly or bi-monthly rhythm.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Our quarters don't follow the actual half anyway, with the solstice and equinox not matching up with the months.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

The divide is easy, and can be marked on the calendar like a holiday.

  • 3 months and a week
  • 6 months and two weeks
  • 9 months and three weeks
  • New years (or day before or after, take your pick)

Much more convenient than making the whole calendar inconsistent.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Those divisions are already skewed in a 12 month calendar though because the number of days is not similarly divisible:

Half year (6 months) 1st half: 181 days (182 for leap years) 2nd half: 184 days

Quarter year (3 months) 1st quarter: 90 days (91 for leap years) 2nd quarter: 91 days 3rd quarter: 92 days 4th quarter: 92 days

A leap year has 366 days which is evenly divisible by 2 and yet even then a "half year" at the monthly level doesn't contain half the days of the year. Having uneven yearly divisions in a 13 month calendar would not be a new problem.