I always figured the funnest thing would just be not to give it a name, and then when people ask be like, well yesterday was Sunday and tomorrow is Monday.

But the more reasonable proposal I heard was just to call it New Years Day/Weekend, depending?

The fine article talks about that---there was Jewish resistance to the idea because they felt that the Sabbath was always the 7th day and that would get out of sync.

Day’ymcdayface. That’s how that will go down.

Referring to “boaty mcboatface”

The moon cycle is approx 28 days, which is 7x4.

The height of tides are rooted in this but have 7 day periods of increasing, decreasing, increasing, decreasing.

I don't know if thats reason enough to continue with it, but possibly part of the history

That’s really a strong reason, is it not? I have no idea for how long humanity has tracked the seven day week, but suspect it’s been well over 2000 years.

That’s a lot of tradition to discard.

7 days for the moon to go in half a cycle. Full to half. New moon to half moon. A pretty good demarkation of a period of time between one day and a month (full lunar cycle).

Alot of religions kinda use the week for weekly prayer (all Abrahamic religions) so you kinda stuck with it since you need to take that into account

Yeah, momentum. I can't think of what authority would be able to change it and make it be globally followed. A tradition of thousand years, with roots in religious texts. I don't think it is within anyone's power to change it.

I don't see how. You are making assumptions and claims for others with no support. To me that week.day number looks more complicated and less meaningful than plain days.

Perhaps weeks seems to make sense since we sometimes use them for offsets and ranges, like "this project will take 6 weeks" and figuring out how many days that is is inconvenient. But if we were using days then we simply wouldn't use groups of 30 or 7 for things like that, we would use groups and multiples of 10 or 5. We'd probably end up using kilodays and millidays too instead of years or minutes, and years would be arbitrary, but 51.9something weeks is already arbitrary anyways.

And as that # of weeks example just showed, .day is ambiguous with decimal fractions of a unit.

All in all I see no special obvious rightness here. It's kinda crap actually.

It's indeed harder to compute the time difference, but maybe it's also an indication that mental calculation should be practiced more.