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		demondemidi on Oct 12, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Metric Time intercalation took millennia to get right and was driven largely by starvation due to crop failure.

kybernetikos on Oct 12, 2023 [–]

Which is why my system doesn't address year length. In practice I'd stick with the same leap day concept we currently use, so some years would have 36th quadday as their last day and some would have 36th pentday as their last day.

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