People that say a month is 4 weeks?

[ooop]

I've seen this twice over the past month on mums groups and it's such a petty hate of mine but it irritates me!!!

Two mums have put on a photo with the caption 'one month old today!!!' when they're not. I've seen someone put it on today saying 'one month old' when her baby was born 3/5 and it's been 28 days (4 weeks), but a month hasn't passed!!! When your baby is '12 months' (a year), it'll still have another month to go until it's birthday?!?!?

Am I really petty that this bothers me so much? 😂😂😂😂

Calendar month - January, February etc.
Lunar month - the amount of time it takes for the moon to cycle the earth - approx. 27.3 days.
See also
Month type

Length in days

anomalistic 27.554549878 − 0.000000010390 × Y

sidereal 27.321661547 + 0.000000001857 × Y

tropical 27.321582241 + 0.000000001506 × Y

draconic 27.212220817 + 0.000000003833 × Y

synodic 29.530588853 + 0.000000002162 × Y

It's not quite as simple as you think!

plus 28 days is a looner month.

luna

A luna month is actually 29 days, 12 hours, 44 minutes, and 2.8 seconds.

It's actually 'lunar'

I used to work in lettings and trying to explain to some tenants that if each month were 4 weeks there would only be 48 weeks in a year had me banging my head on the desk

Lol, trying to teach budgetting to people with learning disabilities when bills are paid monthly but benefits are paid fortnightly or 4-weekly is pretty challenging!

In benefits. the rules for converting a weekly rent to a monthly amount and vice versa are different for universal credit and housing benefit.

HB is paid weekly. To get a weekly rent figure, HB uses

(monthly rent 12)/365 7

To get a monthly amount from a weekly rent, UC uses

(weekly rent * 52)/12.

If you convert a monthly rent to weekly using the first formula, then convert the weekly figure using the second formula, they do not come out the same! I think the difference is about £3 on a monthly figure of £1,000.

Because social housing landlords still charge rents weekly, running from Monday to Sunday, and this year has 53 Mondays, UC claimants were going to lose out on a week's rent. I believe they have now agreed to pay the "extra" week, but haven't seen this in black and white, so it may not be true.

And don't get me started on the bonkers situation for UC claimants who have their rent deducted at source and paid direct to landlords. The team that deal with this still make payments 4-weekly, but deduct a monthly amount from claimants. The DWP can't tell us how they're going to avoid paying 13 months' rent in a year!

Yeah this is annoying. I had an hour long session with my dad once who thought there was something wrong with his pension. I went through bank statements, pension statements to try and figure out and then he said something which gave away that he thought there were 4 weeks in a month. Problem solved ffs.

Also money threads on here where people are budgeting for four weeks but get paid monthly and can't figure out why there's no money left at the end of the month. It's because you've spent it all in four weeks!

def on google:

each of the twelve named periods into which a year is divided.
"the first six months of 1992"
a period of time between the same dates in successive calendar months.
"the president's rule was extended for six more months from March 3"
a period of 28 days or four weeks.

Luna! (Sorry to derail the thread)

A LOONER MONTH!!!???

Pp who said add another month and make them all 4 weeks. This still wouldn't work as there are 52 weeks and 1 day in a year (2 days in a leap year).

plus 28 days is a looner month

that has made my day!

I don't think it matters when someone is just trying to indicate an absolute amount of time.

Tell me that the work will take 3 months and it is useful for this to have a meaning that is independent of whatever the current or starting month is.

Else it might take 3 months if started at one point of the year, 2.5 months if started at another point in the year, IYSWIM.

Oh Luna is so cute!

@SinjunRivers I know! Tenants seem to think I'm trying to con them when I explain that four weeks rent isn't the same as one month.

lunar yes I'm dyslexic and yes I knew looner was wrong but couldn't for the life of think of the correct way, but that's the way of dyslexia sometimes, and autocorrect quite often doesn't prompt a correct spelling if you aren't even using the right letters. glad it made you all laugh

and just in case you think I'm a 4 weeker counter of a month and quizz me on it. I'm not, was just offering suggestions as to why some people do.

One of my medications is prescribed on a monthly basis (same date every month).
There’s only 28 tablets in the pack (one a day).
They told me they can’t make the prescription request before the set date because ‘a pack should last me the month if I was taking it properly’ so I had to go a couple of days each month without tablets.
I’d been asking them to change it for months, they refused! So switched surgeries and they now accept the request 5 days before the prescription is due.

I was trying to do the x4.33 calculation for something in my head not long ago, and some challenged Tracey type whined 'Ya times it by fouuur'. I was tempted to staple her hand to the counter, for throwing me off. The thick never know they're thick.

😂

I'm on a FB parents group and this comes up fairly regularly with people trying to work out how many months their child is based on 4 weeks in a month. For
working out 3 months= very close to 13 weeks is a good rule of thumb.

I had to go a couple of days each month without tablets.
I’d been asking them to change it for months, they refused!

This is insane (or looner, thanks Moobaa )! How can people who's jobs involve understanding days, weeks and months in the interests of people's health not understand this, or at least have had it explained to them until they did?

it drives me up the wall especially the 10 month long pregnancy conspiracy 🤦🏻‍♀️ it isn’t rocket science. You just use the date of your last period to figure out how many months it’s been, so if that’s 5th jan then you’ll be 3 months on 5th apr.

people trying to work out how many months their child is

Can't they just remember which day of the month their child was born on? Then it's age in months ticks up every time a day with the same number goes by!

I prefer looner. It accounts for the odd behaviour that happens around the time of the full moon....

The prescription thing is so annoying.
One of my medications is packaged in a box of 30 tablets.
The pharmacist opens the box and removes two tablets each time.
Sometimes I get a box that has one strip of 15 tablets and a whole heap of cut offs (which fall out onto the floor when I open the box).
I always ask the consultant for an emergency back up supply when I go to hospital in case I run out.
According to the surgery, a month's supply is 28 days. Which is fine as long as you can re-order in time.

It's just a lunar month. (And yes, loony is derived from lunar, hence lunatic asylum). I can't get worked up about it. Have a look at the international fixed calendar, it's quite interesting.

@mooba

Laughing along with you. It did cheer me up and I hope you don't thing it was mocking!

I feel your pain OP.

Some people are as thick as pig shit.