The Last Post Game!!!!

[Sibling Zono (anon1mat0)]

I thought the usage of anachronistic measure units was a privilege of the Empire.

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[Swatopluk]

To measure a horse in hands is also in use in the ex-empire I live in. I think it is international.

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[Griffin NoName]

I wonder if there is an Internation prototype hand like the International prototype kilogram at Sèvres - hands after all, can come in many sizes - and who's hand is it, and how was it aquired? Do they use a child's hand to measure ponies?

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[Swatopluk]

A common method in the olden times was to take a random sample of ten*, put them together and mark the length on a tape/stick/etc.

*e.g. a sequence of people stepping out of church since everyone was expected to be there and (unlike at the entry) the leaving did not follow any order of rank, thus the sample would be both representative and random.

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[Sibling Zono (anon1mat0)]

Everything should be metric.

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[Swatopluk]

There have been several attempts at a metric week but it was usually a Trojan horse to reduce non-working days.

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[Griffin NoName]

I have a weakness for food.

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[Swatopluk]

As long as it is not fast or with weak sauce?

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[Sibling Zono (anon1mat0)]

There have been several attempts at a metric week but it was usually a Trojan horse to reduce non-working days.

The week is about the moon, you can't have metric moon phases.

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[Swatopluk]

The month is the one about the moon and our months do not fit with the moon phases either.

The standard model would be the same as the Egyptians used: 12 months with 30 days each, the remaining 5 or 6 days are outside the year (and are holidays).
So, a month would have 3 weeks with 10 days per week => 36 weeks/year = 360 days + 5 to 6 extra.

12 is just more versatile than 10.
10 = 1*10=2*5;
12=1*12=2*2*3=2*6=3*4

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[Sibling Zono (anon1mat0)]

Something's gotta give, either the month fits or you have to use a short and long calendars, all things considered better to have months not fitting the moon than months not fitting the year, don't you think?

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[Griffin NoName]

Saving up those spare days until there are 365 of them, then slot in an extra year. If this was done sneakily enough, no one would know, so all the things that happen in that extra year can be ignored as if they did not happen, which might prove useful.

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[Swatopluk]

That would end as in ancient Rome. Those who have to decide about the date of the leap period will sell it to the highest bidder.
Hey, Mr.President. Would you like to stay in office for an extra year? For the modest sum of ${insert quite high number} and some other privileges, we would be inclined to time the leap according to your wishes. Btw, your opponent offered us a not insignificant sum to cut a year instead.

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[Aggie]

I would prefer 12 months of 30 days, then the bulk of time falling outside of months and treated as a holiday period to usher in the new year. It would foster community celebrations, and in many parts of the world a similar period is treated that way in any case (date for the start of the New Year vary).

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[Griffin NoName]

Or get rid of the extra days by travelling deep into space. There's no end of ways to get rid of awkward extra time.

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