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> In rec.food.cooking, Noises Off > wrote:
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>>The best question is "Why do they put the extra leap year
>>day in February? Why not put it in August when the weather
>>would be better?"
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> I never thought of it that way. But you raise an excellent point!
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> Hell, why not make it a Monday Holiday!?
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> If it were all up to me, I'd make ten months, each with 36 days, made up
> of 6 six-day weeks. The extra 5 or 6 days would be the "holiday season"
> centered around the winter solstice, during which time nobody would work.

The French revolution got there about 250 years before you.
Their calendar had ten months of 36 days + five or six
'rogation' days at the end of the year (midwinter). A week
was ten days, seven working and three resting. It lasted
four years before everybody was sick to the back teeth of it
and went back to the proper calendar.

They also had ten hours to the day but let's not go there.

OB Cooking. The hottest revolutionary month was called
'Thermidor' which will strike terror into any passing lobster.

Noises Off