Angry about Americans and Date Formats
re mapping saints to days: of course I know about that (some EU countries I care about still keep namesdays mostly matching catholic calendar and more as a formal thing). As far as my knowledge about that part of history goes, people did not really "map" all of the saints on specific days. In the end the calendar was "kept" by the church, so it was easy to just rely on the priest to let you know when a specific day it will be comming next week or month. Agreements were also often easily made based on the phase of the moon - still a granularity of 2-5 days.
We also have some historical records for how people handled appointments. Take Switzerland, which you no doubt know well. The date/time agreements people made for moving cows to/from mountains are a good example for how people treated date setting several hundred years back. Those were rather rough agreements, weren't they? Judging by historical novels written some 100-150 years back, we know that sometimes people would be waiting for days/weeks for an event they expected to happen.
Anyhow, good luck with the frustrating dates there. I know that frustration well 🙂 .
