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Honestly weeks feel more relevant than months for day-to-day life. Source: my four-year-old understands weeks (because she can see the difference between weekdays when she has school and weekends when she does not) but not months.

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It's unfortunate as a society we don't punctuate our months with something as simple as an extended 4 day break.

I think it would be better for everyone to get four days a month to choose as days off. Then it would be better distributed. I would prefer this to a four work week. After a few days in a row the freedom really sinks in, so I'd love to be able to take a week off every month, guilt free.

Its probably way too late to implement something like this but the idea is still a good one.

Thinking of it, wasn't there a "metric" calendar or something that sort of did this?

The French Republican Calendar had five/six complementary days [0] at the end of the year that were part of no particular month. They were, however, spent contiguously between summer and fall, rather than between each season.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_Republican_calendar#Com...

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