That didn't have to be the case though. Look at the Jewish calender. It's a lunar based calender but it compensates by adding a leap month every few years. (That's why the jewish holidays move around every year but never drift too far.) The leap month periodically pushes the whole calender back into alignment and keeps everything in the right place.
'Twas a cutlass swipe or an ounce of lead
Or a yawing hole in a battered head
And the scuppers clogged with rotting red
And there they lay I damn me eyes
All lookouts clapped on Paradise
All souls bound just contrarywise, yo ho ho and a bottle of rum!
Haha, we only partially stole Norse mythology for our day names though. Some of it is Roman, some Germanic. I'm thinking we should totally add Hindi and Zoroastrian, though I guess it's best if we use dead religions, and there are still a couple thousand Zoroastrians in the world I think, and about a billion Hindus.
'Twas a cutlass swipe or an ounce of lead
Or a yawing hole in a battered head
And the scuppers clogged with rotting red
And there they lay I damn me eyes
All lookouts clapped on Paradise
All souls bound just contrarywise, yo ho ho and a bottle of rum!
What about some Aztec names?
Quetzalcóatlday, Tlalocday and Huitzilopochtliday!
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"This is not a dress. This is a sacred robe of the ancient psychedelic monks."
Or we could just name them after regular people. Stevesday, Bobsday, Jennifersday...
The hours and minutes are based on a Babylonian base 60 system, while the day cycle is (as far as I remember) Egyptian, where they'd count the rise of certain stars at certain intervals and thereby set the cycle from one rise to the next the following day.
The French tried to switch to metric, or decimal, time shortly after the revolution in the late 1700's but it never really caught on and was done away with after a decade or so.