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    Finnish:

    oak month (or central month if you don’t use current meaning of the word)

    pearl month

    ground month

    clearing the forest of trees for field month

    planting seed month

    summer month (or plowing month by original meaning)

    hay harvesting month

    grain harvesting month

    autumn month

    muddy month

    death month

    yule month

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      As a Scandinavian who wasn’t familiar with Finish month names… Yeah, death month is a much more accurate name than November. Ugh.

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        Finnish month names are pretty damn descriptive. Before we had Yule Month we had Winter Month as December.

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        It was basically a month when doing slash-and-burn farming slashing and burning happened. Which seems to be August among others today.

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      I’m no farmer, but shouldn’t Planting Seed Month and Plowing Month be swapped? Seems like an ill-advised order of doing things.

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      But if you make it thru death month you get to experience Christmas cheer! It’s even colder but pretty lights!!!

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    Idk why Japan is being credited for being the logical one when they simply copied the Chinese system/characters

    Chinese weekdays make a lot more sense as well

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      Any system that does not have 13 months of 28 days each, plus a remainder day to keep pace with the sun, is not logical.

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        Having a “remainder day” is weird, but it’s hard to avoid. It really sucks that 365 doesn’t divide nicely into much at all. 5 and 73 are the only non-trivial answers. five 73 day months? Can’t even call it a month at that point.

        I guess 13x28 + 1 does indeed make most sense…

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          There’s always a remainder day, and it’s not precisely 24 hours. That’s why we have leap years and sometimes leap seconds. You could get rid of that by cramming all of the time into one day of varying length. This year, maybe it’s 29.75 hours. Maybe next year it’s 31. Astronomers and physicists could fight it out and see how closely they can match the previous year.

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          May as well embrace the weird, cuz we dont orbit in exactly 365 days anyway. So theres gonna be leap year type adjustments anyway.

          1 odd day from 13x28 is the perfect excuse for a new holiday too. And avoids having to figure out is it a weekday or not. It gets to be neither, a unique special holiday not tied to religion, nationality, culture, politics, etc (though many oppose it for reasons within those topics).

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            speaking of leap days, I also considered using a quad-year as a unit, integrating the leap day as a standard day. 365.25x4=1461. But that only divides by 3 and 481, even worse!

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        The Baha’i calendar is 19 months with 19 days, and a 4 or 5 day celebration in between months 18 and 19. The year starts the day that coincides with March 21.

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      Pretty much all of East Asia is a knockoff of China.

      Alright, so I assume I started WWIII there, better get to my bunker. /s

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        Better yet they only had 10 months, and the remaining 60ish days of the year were just 乁⁠(⁠ ⁠•⁠_⁠•⁠ ⁠)⁠ㄏ

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        The Roman year originally started in March (the month of Mars) because that’s when the war season started. January and February were at the end of the year and originally weren’t named at all.

        But at some point, the Romans had a problem with one of their politicians. He had a one year term. To get rid of him, they moved the new year to January. It was supposed to be temporary but somehow we’re still living with the results of that lifehack.

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      Reiwa 5, everyone knows when all the emperors acceded to the throne, silly.

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      It’s not like the “we thought this guy was born on this day (we were wrong)” is a great system but at least it doesn’t randomly reset either like with the Japanese years

      Or I hope it doesn’t. Probably would mean end times or something.

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    Polish:

    A contacting one
    Fierce
    War God
    A flowery one
    Earth Goddess
    Maggot (especially cochineal*), but also knawel
    A linden one
    A sickle one
    A heathery one
    A shives one
    Leavesfall
    A lump/clod one

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    And they’re not even correctly numbered! Stupid Julius and Augustus ruined friggin EVERYTHING

    Sep - 7 Oct - 8 Nov - 9 Dec - 10

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      As someone else already pointed out: it was January and February that were added later. July and August just replaced the old names.

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    The Romans had a 10 month calendar that started with March. Then later they added January and February to better match the lunar cycles in a year. Hence the mismatch of the numbered months.

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      I was under the impression that July (Julious) and August (Augustus) were the two shoehored in

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      I always assumed this is why the leap day is in february, since it would coincide with the end of the roman calendar

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        I think it’s in February because it’s the shortest month, and it’s the shortest month because it was the last one, with all the remaining days.

        The thing I’m not sure about is why some months have 30 days, some 31 ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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        They had something like ten non-month holy days that the consoles were responsible for sticking in the calendar. This traditionally corrected for the drift. In the political turmoil leading up to to ceasar, this didn’t get done. When ceasar imposed the new calendar, he had to insert like 40 extra days to the first year in orderto correct this.

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    It’s always rubbed me the wrong way that Oktoberfest doesn’t happen in October OR the 8th month.

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      Going to memorize the elements

      Traditional week
      • Sunday
      • Moonday
      • Fireday
      • Waterday
      • Woodday
      • Goldday
      • Soilday

      But a new version just dropped:

      Modernized week
      • Hydrogenday
      • Heliumday
      • Lithiumday
      • Berylliumday
      • Boronday
      • Carbonday
      • Nitrogenday
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        They’re named after planets, in the ancient sense of “lights in the sky that don’t stand still”.

        • Sunday
        • Moonday
        • Marsday
        • Mercuryday
        • Jupiterday
        • Venusday
        • Saturnday
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    I’m slightly mentally slow and still don’t remember all of the months in a year. I’m 23 years old.

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      Same. Which month is July again? June? What month is that? Sorry, I just can’t remember the months that don’t have notable events associated with.

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        July is the one with the fireworks but warm.

        June is father’s day …

        … Aka the month where it’s finally warm enough but the mountains are still buried in snow so I still have to wait to go four wheeling.