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The Babylonian Calendar
In the Russian Revolution, they had a week of five days with no time off. This was after the weekend had been reintroduced in the Second World War. If you did work on a Saturday morning, you were known as a subotnik. And this is the same word, Shabbat, still surviving in Russia, in communist Russia. So the Babylonian idea is still there until very, very recently,. In the last 10 years it has become much more accurate. But what you have to accept is the calendar simply don't divide into each other. They're incommensurable. It's like Alan Bennett's Vicar and the Sardin team, whatever you do. There