Bears Armed wrote:OOC
They count it as however your system defines a length of time equivalent to half a [standard] Gregorian-Calendar year, since that is the most obvious meaning of "six months" in English.
OOC: And yet, a resolution only does what a resolution says it does. If it had meant half a year, it would have said half a year. It's a reasonable reading to apply six months as six months, whether or not it's half a year.
Remember that even the fact that proposals must appear here in English is only an OOC convention, and that IC they might have been originally posted in other languages instead (e.g. Suomi; e.g. ii Ursine), so the wording that our ambassadors see here is often only a translation anyway...
That's why I'm asking, because various things in Finnish systems calculate months as 7x4 days, which only February matches (on most years). And also, if it was translated into Finnish, it would still be kuusi kuukautta, and the same issue would continue, given that the Araraukarian year has kolmetoista kuukautta instead of kaksitoista.
This is all fairly pointless, though, because if you're right, the proposal whose thread this is, is illegal for duplication, and also there's no way for you to change my mind regardless of what arguments you use, as long as the relevant resolution refers to a number of months rather than half a year.