Here's a question that'll make me look dumb

[HEyHEY]

Is there any area of the world that doesn't have a 7 days a week system? If so, what system do they go on?

[Superfly]

1. It's not the question that makes you look dumb...

...:evilgrin:

[Bossy Monkey]

2. I think there are 8 in Liverpool

Look up metric time some time. After the Revolution, the French set up a new calendar and new time. I assume weeks were 10 days since everything was base-10. Obviously, all this went by the boards centuries ago, but is very interesting. I don't think there are any calendars with other than 7 days, but could be easily mistaken.

Edit: Hopefully it's obvious that the subject line is a Beatles joke having nothing to do with the body of the message.

[HEyHEY]

4. I got the joke

I young, but not that young

[Ohio Dem]

3. You're saying that the seven day week is arbitrary.

And does anyone else anywhere in the world use a different system? I'd say the isolated tribes in South America and Africa don't use weeks. They have the same length days we do, of course. Just not organized into weeks and months like ours.

I don't think it's a stupid question.

[WannaJumpMyScooter]

5. No, not arbitrariy

One lunar cycle is close to 7 days.


On Edit... just found this, knew I had the link somewhere...
http://webexhibits.org/calendars/week.html

[Ohio Dem]

6. I hate to nitpick, but from the link you provided:

"The number seven does not seem an obvious choice to match lunar or solar periods, however."

I do want to thank you for this link. This type of stuff fascinates me for some reason.

And after reading the beginning of the site you linked to, I will agree that the seven may no be arbitrary. But I guess that depends on how you look at it. If seven was chosen because it was somehow mystically significant, I would argue that to be arbitrary in today's world.

[WannaJumpMyScooter]

7. Not a picked nit at all... the next sentance says

"The seven-day week may have been chosen because its length approximates one moon phase (one quarter = 29.53 / 4 = 7.3825)."

Capiche?

[Ohio Dem]

9. I stand corrected.

I didn't read it thoroughly enough the first time 'round.

My bad.

[GregW]

8. Read "Dayworld" by Philip Jose Farmer

Imagine a world in the future, where the Earth is so overpopulated that only 1/7 of the population can live on it at any one time. Each person is assigned a day of the week (Like Wednesday) and they are 'alive' for only that day. At midnight on Wednesday the Wednesday people are put into suspended animation, and the Thursday people are "thawed out".

The seasons will change 7 times faster, each day evolves its own culture, and the worst crime to commit is being a 'Day Runner' ... someone who doesn't freeze each night, and lives each day of the week.

Fascinating series of books.