Board Thread:The Last Sovereign Discussion/@comment-39332473-20190808194309/@comment-36874080-20200119125450

There are 7 days of the week because there are seven classical planets. Sunday is for the Sun, monday is for the Moon, saturday for Saturn... The other days have names from ancient germanic mythology which I can't bother to remember, but it's more clear in French: mardi for Mars, mercredi for Mercury, jeudi for Jupiter, vendredi for Venus. Each day is dominated by a planet's influence. I could elaborate on the classical time system, but that's the gist of it. It's not really about working hours, since people didn't work nearly as much in the medieval period as they do now.

"It would make us work more" is totally the reason why the ten-days calendar proposed in the French revolution didn't catch, however. People had totally forgotten the astrological origins of this stuff.