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To name the Months (i.imgur.com)
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[-] datelmd5sum@lemmy.world 77 points 10 months ago

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

[-] Chariotwheel@kbin.social 61 points 10 months ago

Finland would have a higher population if they would just get rid of Death Month.

[-] Atrabiliousaurus@lemmy.world 41 points 10 months ago

It's just a name, like the Forbidden Month or the Month of No Return, all the months have names like that in the Season of Terror.

[-] Chariotwheel@kbin.social 20 points 10 months ago

No, Finland becomes the Purge for a month, ensuring that only the strongest and craftiest Finns survive. If you see an old Finnish person, better respect them. They survived decades of annual battle royals.

[-] loaExMachina@sh.itjust.works 7 points 10 months ago

!unexpectedfuturama@lemmy.ml

[-] sab@kbin.social 17 points 10 months ago

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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[-] Jakylla@sh.itjust.works 12 points 10 months ago

"clearing the forest of trees for field month"

Favorite month for Amazon forest

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[-] Krachsterben@feddit.de 67 points 10 months ago

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

[-] themeatbridge@lemmy.world 31 points 10 months ago

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.

[-] gxgx55@lemmy.world 14 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

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...

[-] themeatbridge@lemmy.world 8 points 10 months ago

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.

[-] AngryMob@lemmy.one 8 points 10 months ago

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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[-] WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago

We need to push the Earth into a higher orbit.

[-] AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 9 points 10 months ago

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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[-] CanadaPlus 27 points 10 months ago

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

[-] AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 16 points 10 months ago

Nah, you didn't call it Western Taiwan, you should be good.

[-] iByteABit@lemm.ee 54 points 10 months ago

I just realized that about September-December, that's mindblowing and hilarious

[-] uniqueid198x@lemmy.dbzer0.com 37 points 10 months ago

the roman year started on march 1 so thats how they numbered months. English never caught up.

[-] Damage@feddit.it 18 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Neither did other European languages

[-] mapro@lemm.ee 6 points 10 months ago

*some. For example Croatian, Czech, Polish and Ukrainian are using local names.

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[-] octoperson@sh.itjust.works 12 points 10 months ago

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

[-] FlowVoid@midwest.social 9 points 10 months ago

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.

[-] ThisIsAManWhoKnowsHowToGling@lemmy.dbzer0.com 28 points 10 months ago

I hope the guy responsible for that got stabbed

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[-] parpol@programming.dev 53 points 10 months ago

What year is it, Japan?

[-] xep@kbin.social 51 points 10 months ago

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

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[-] Kierunkowy74@kbin.social 46 points 10 months ago

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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[-] nxfsi@lemmy.world 30 points 10 months ago

Romans: having 10 months in a year 2000 years before the metric system.

[-] teuast@lemmy.ca 15 points 10 months ago

they're so metric even their calendar is metric

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[-] FederatedSaint@lemmy.world 27 points 10 months ago

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

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

[-] lugal@sopuli.xyz 26 points 10 months ago

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

[-] CanadaPlus 23 points 10 months ago

To add for anyone that's new to this, January and February were originally considered not a real part of the year because everyone was hunkered down for the winter.

[-] ComradePorkRoll@lemmy.ml 9 points 10 months ago

We should do that again.

[-] IWantToFuckSpez@kbin.social 26 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

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.

[-] Alto@kbin.social 16 points 10 months ago

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

[-] IWantToFuckSpez@kbin.social 28 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

No they just renamed Quintilis (5th) and Sextilis (6th) to July and August

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[-] dentoid@sopuli.xyz 9 points 10 months ago

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

[-] Rinox@feddit.it 5 points 10 months ago

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)_/¯

[-] uniqueid198x@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 10 months ago

Its the shortest month because it was considered the unluckiest month and they literally wanted it to be over sooner.

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[-] Gradually_Adjusting@lemmy.world 20 points 10 months ago

English got lore

[-] meeeeetch@lemmy.world 13 points 10 months ago

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

[-] Prof_Eibe@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 10 months ago

thats because the roman year started in march and october was the 8th month in their calendar.

[-] uniqueid198x@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 10 months ago

Naw, its cause it used to start in october but they moved it to september for better weather.

[-] dangblingus@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 10 months ago

Oktoberfest ends in October.

[-] uniqueid198x@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 10 months ago

Yeah, but try counting the days in those months

[-] Jakylla@sh.itjust.works 7 points 10 months ago

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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[-] Rin@lemm.ee 8 points 10 months ago

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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[-] einfach_orangensaft@feddit.de 5 points 10 months ago

i did read that as "moth names"

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