Thirty Days Hath Sebtober

According to the Bible, God made the world in six days and, on the seventh day, He rested. If you count Sunday as the first day in the week, then Saturday should be the Sabbath, the day of rest. It always was too, until the Christians changed it to Sunday, the day that Jesus rose from the dead. I don't think that Jesus told them to do that, they just took it upon themselves. The Jews, Muslims, and the Seventh Day Adventists still use Saturday for the Sabbath because that's what the Bible says to do. Maybe that's why we have a two day weekend, so that everybody's Sabbath is covered.

Funny, though, the days of the week are named after Nordic gods, and the months of the year are named after Roman gods. You won't find any of those names in the Bible, it usually refers to the days by number, and the hours too. The first hour of the day starts at 6:00AM, our time. Traditionally, the Jewish Sabbath runs from sundown Friday till sundown Saturday, but I'm not sure if they still do it that way. I seem to remember that they standardized sundown to 6:00PM, but I could be wrong about that.

It takes the Moon about 28 days to make it's full cycle, but not exactly, which is probably why the Lunar Calendar went out of fashion. A solar calendar isn't much better because they need to stick an extra day in February every four years to keep it from wandering off track. I suppose they chose February because it's the shortest month, but I don't know why all the months shouldn't be the same length. Some time ago, it occurred to me that they could make all the months the same length if they had 13 months in the year instead of 12. Each month would be 28 days, with one day left over at the end of the year, two in a Leap Year. That day could easily be accounted for by making it New Years Day, which is a holiday anyway, so it doesn't need to be part of any week or any month either. In Leap Year, there would be two New Years Days, and nobody should complain about that. If you factor New year's Day(s) out of the equation, you get a 364 day year, divided into 13 equal months of four weeks each. Sunday would always be on the first, seventh, fourteenth, and twenty first day of the month, with all the other days of the week lined up accordingly. It would be a neater, more logical calendar than the one we have now, which was ordained by Pope Gregory XIII in 1582, but not adopted by Great Britain and the American colonies until 1752. All that proves is that there is nothing magic about the calendar, it can be whatever somebody wants it to be.