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2026-02-01 06:08 UTC

Like. The Islamic calendar dispenses with solar-cycle (and thus, Gregorian cycle) alignment entirely. That's all I know enough to say about that, but I can talk about my practice-- I use, on a weekly-at-least basis, a calendar that maintains its solar-cycle alignment by tossing in an extra month sporadically on a 19 year cycle. The end and start of days vary, ranging from 3pm to 8pm, depending on day of the year, latitude, longitude-within-the-time-zone, and /elevation/. (And, arguably, which day of the week it is.) ... also varying, by those same (nonparenthetical) conditions, is the length of an hour. (These are the parts that affect day-to-day living in practical, tangible, ways. I'm skipping the circumstantial technicalities like how a minority interpretation holds that our calendrical new year, on the first and second day of the 7th month, is halachically one single day.)

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@gaditb@icosahedron.website 2026-02-01 06:32

This has practical, tangible, political effects. It is /not a coincidence/ that we got the weekend from a US northeast labor movement where even goyim were gaining fluency in Yiddish. Nor is this a resolved issue -- I have a friend who, as we speak, is being (practically deniably but subjectively likely) pushed out of their job directly in response to being shomer-shabbos cutting into their hours. I have personally (-- I didn't mention the "a scattering of 'it is religiously impossible for me to write or use electricity today' days" above --), not through advocating but simply through being present and having no other solution, single-handedly exanded the policy on taking days off at a previous job. (And to be clear, that was a failure on my part -- they moved it as little as possible and to apply to as few other cases as possible. I knew even less about standing up as a worker than the little I do now.) COMMIT TO SOMETHING. POSITION YOURSELF TOWARDS BEING THE SAND IN THEIR GEARS.

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