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minus-squareDaddleDew@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·1 month agoFrom what I can understand, it provides them light that they use to hunt at night.
minus-squarerain_enjoyer@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·1 month agoHumans also do that, both the handful of remaining hunter-gatherers and militaries. This is also why week is 7 days long (1/4 of lunar month)
minus-squaredavidgro@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·1 month agoFor that to make sense wouldn’t a week need to be 7.3826475 days long? Maybe add a leap day every two weeks, except every 8th, but do every 128th, skip every 5120th…
minus-squarerain_enjoyer@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·1 month agoThey just added leap days based on observation
minus-squaredavidgro@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·1 month agoAlmost every two weeks? I’ve never heard of a week system like that.
minus-squarerain_enjoyer@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·1 month agoThey added leap days when it mattered for nighttime hunting and stopped doing that when they settled From what i remember anyway, it was a long time ago
From what I can understand, it provides them light that they use to hunt at night.
Humans also do that, both the handful of remaining hunter-gatherers and militaries. This is also why week is 7 days long (1/4 of lunar month)
For that to make sense wouldn’t a week need to be 7.3826475 days long? Maybe add a leap day every two weeks, except every 8th, but do every 128th, skip every 5120th…
They just added leap days based on observation
Almost every two weeks? I’ve never heard of a week system like that.
They added leap days when it mattered for nighttime hunting and stopped doing that when they settled
From what i remember anyway, it was a long time ago