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  • WayneWeanerdog@c.im
    Jul 10, 2024, 6:42 AM

    @argonaut @CyberneticForests

    That's just Eurocentric imperialism pushed onto the world.

    But in saying that, a week is just a construct. It's not really a measure of time.

    1 day is basically a revolution of the earth on its axis.

    1 month is roughly a completion of the cycles of the moon (one month revolution around the earth). But days have been added in most months so it doesn't track anymore.

    One year is the plus/minus one rotation of the earth around the Sun. Leep year structure sorts out most of the variance.

    But what is a week. It's not based on anything that I know. So who cares when it starts or ends as it's cyclical. If the end is a Saturday or a Sunday or a Wednesday it makes no difference.

    Also the Ritalin has kicked in.

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  • Infrapink (he/his/him)Infrapink@mastodon.ie
    Jul 11, 2024, 4:12 AM

    @Weanerdog
    The Sumerians had special religious observances on the days of the moon's canonical phases - the first visible crescent, waxing half, full moon, and waning half. These are usually 7 days apart, sometimes 8. As time went on, this got regularised to just 7 days, each of which was then associated with one of the non-stellar lights in the sky.

    And that's where we get the seven-day week.
    @argonaut @CyberneticForests

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  • WayneWeanerdog@c.im
    Jul 11, 2024, 7:41 AM

    @Infrapink @argonaut @CyberneticForests

    Oh wow. Thank you. That is so cool. I suppose there goes my argument.

    I can't believe I didn't work this out I am truely not as smart as our Sumerian brothers although to be honest I know very little about Sumeria, as you could probably tell. I only really know bits of the Legend of Gilgamesh.

    Okay people, week starts when we see the different phase of the moon.

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