Back to B.C. by Johnny Hart for June 24, 2023

Gotta watch out for those dittypaths

He’s good under pressure.

52 weeks, like a deck of cards. 4 seasons with 13 weeks each. We just passed the midsummer joker, a day most years but every 4th year we wait an extra day for the sun to go down just there.

AND Earth Orbit Day!

No connection but: saw an ad for “passionfruit” juice. Friend of mine who ran a juice bar said it’s half-orange, half raspberry. It SELLS better if you call it passion fruit! True or false – whatta ya think?

That doesn’t even rhyme.

I’m retired, it’s all the same to me. I don’t need no stinking calendar.

30 days have September,April, June and my uncle….

Good thing his calendar starts on Monday. If it started on on Sunday there would be 13 Friday the 13th. That would freak out alot of people.

13 28-day months makes much more sense than having to memorize a poem to figure out how many days each month has.

Julius Caesar gets the ignominious credit for initiating our existing illogical calendar in 45 BC in which he added a month named after him. His calendar was modified by Pope Gregory in 1582 to include an extra day in February every four years.

Reminds me of when I tried to come up with a song for “The Metric Alphabet”. I had this brilliant idea to sort the letters by size. :)

A calendar is only as good as its weakest day…

There are quite a few businesses that work on a 13 period calendar so comparisons are easier.

A 28-day month is basically a lunar month. The moon goes through all its phases in 28 days. I’ve never understood why we have months with such varying numbers of days. Even if you gave all the months 30 days, you’d still have 5 stray days, even after bringing Feb. up to 30 days instead of 28, at least 5 months would have to have 31 days. Too bad our orbit isn’t divisible by 2 instead of 5. A 5-day week would be the best division with no days left over (except 1 add-on day every 4 years to keep the calendar in sync with the seasons.) You’d have to make one of the 5 days a ‘weekend’ day so people would have one day off to do other things besides work. That means you’d only have 73 ‘weekend’ days instead of your current 104, but you’d only have 4 day work weeks.

I would rather scrap the ditty.