Talk:Shire Reckoning/@comment-2.160.25.183-20140928215357/@comment-25565811-20160920204946

I wrote this, before I had an account here. There is no esoteric reason for that, only a practical. 30 days for each month and the 5 (or 6) additional holidays intermixed and always the same days of the week for the same date, that's just pratical.

Do you know, why our (roman calendar) months have different numbers of days? It's because Julius Cesar regarded himself as most important, so "his" month had to have the most (31) days. And Roman Emperor Augustus (Gaius Octavius) couldn't have fewer. Originally the months were called quintilis (the 5th = july) and sextilis (the 6th = august), as the year began originally in march. So which calendar is more esoteric?