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rayyy@lemmy.world 7 months ago
The thirteen month calendar is called the International Fixed Calendar. George Eastman instituted its use at the Eastman Kodak Company back in 1928, and it was used there until 1989.
Lilith_the_serpent@lemmy.world 7 months ago
It’s been around a lot longer than that.
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Rodeo@lemmy.ca 7 months ago
Wtf is this woo woo garbage lmao
PersnickityPenguin@lemm.ee 7 months ago
Didn’t you know the world sits on the back of a giant turtle??
Malfeasant@lemm.ee 7 months ago
Turtles all the way down.
WoahWoah@lemmy.world 7 months ago
It’s a turtle, bro.
reverendsteveii@lemm.ee 7 months ago
how did the cherokee account for the fact that this is mathematically incorrect and would cause dates to drift across the actual solar year?
Lilith_the_serpent@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Well, it’s incorrect when it comes to the solar year but is correct when it comes to the lunar cycles. So I guess they didn’t track time by the solar year then. It’s just a matter of cultural perspective. Tracking the seasons and the lunar cycles were probably more important to Indigenous Americans because of needing to know when to seed, harvest, and hunt as opposed to knowing the exact time it takes for the earth to loop around the sun.
reverendsteveii@lemm.ee 7 months ago
the seasons are a function of the earth’s position in its orbit around the sun, not the number of moon cycles that have taken place