It's split up. Four weeks is 28 days, but every month except non-leap year February has more days than that. There's where your missing four weeks went.
Sure, but why did society go from 13 lunar months of 4 weeks each to this whacky system counting 1/4th of a day, is I think the question being raised by the post. I think the case could be made that it’s yet another example of the “modern” (relatively speaking) world being constructed in ways that divorce us from nature and reality to live in artificial man-made bubbles of thought, constructed by those at the “top” and foisted down onto us, the masses
How do you easily approximate half a year? A quarter? 12 and power-of-two basesale common division and multiplication tasks easier than primes. Since a year isn't early so neat to divide up, though, compromises had to be made.
It's split up. Four weeks is 28 days, but every month except non-leap year February has more days than that. There's where your missing four weeks went.
Sure, but why did society go from 13 lunar months of 4 weeks each to this whacky system counting 1/4th of a day, is I think the question being raised by the post. I think the case could be made that it’s yet another example of the “modern” (relatively speaking) world being constructed in ways that divorce us from nature and reality to live in artificial man-made bubbles of thought, constructed by those at the “top” and foisted down onto us, the masses
How do you easily approximate half a year? A quarter? 12 and power-of-two basesale common division and multiplication tasks easier than primes. Since a year isn't early so neat to divide up, though, compromises had to be made.