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haxor@derp.fooMB to Hacker News@derp.fooEnglish · 2 years ago

The world nearly adopted a calendar with 13 months of 28 days

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The world nearly adopted a calendar with 13 months of 28 days

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haxor@derp.fooMB to Hacker News@derp.fooEnglish · 2 years ago
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The world very nearly adopted a calendar with 13 months of 28 days
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Long before the current debate over Daylight Saving Time, a League of Nations proposal for a revised global calendar sparked the “Battle for the Sabbath.”

There is a discussion on Hacker News, but feel free to comment here as well.

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  • ThatOneDudeFromOhio@lemmy.world
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    Well there’s a paywall so I have nothing to comment.

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      Reader mode helps. As does archive.*: https://archive.ph/20231105050710/https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2023/11/04/battle-sabbath-13-month-calendar/

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      And yet, here we’re…

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