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There’s no intrinsic need to tie a calendar to solar, terrestrial or lunar cycles. It made sense to do that when those were among your most readily available periodic observables.How about 10 months of 36 days each , with the other five or six leftover days as a very long bank holiday at the end of each year.If you mean “accurate”, then the Persian Hijri calendar used in Iran is far better than the Gregorian calendar. It starts and ends a year on the actual observation of the spring equinox.
Yule actually lasted six days, as the last two days of Foreyule and the first two days of Afteryule also counted as part of the Yule festival. Meet you in the coffee shop at 8072.052 MDE , but in everyday speak you would probably say “see you at 72.05” unless you were planning well ahead.A non-leap year consists of 52 weeks + 1 day. Converting to days: one year=52x7 + 1=13x4x7 + 1=13x28 + 1