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With your calendar, wouldn't the drift eventually be so bad that the month we currently call January might be your calendar's October? When people read old stor
by withinboredom 5y ago
With your calendar, wouldn't the drift eventually be so bad that the month we currently call January might be your calendar's October? When people read old stories about the fall leaves of Halloween people would think it was weird because there'd normally be snow on the ground in October, or the dead heat of summer in the southern hemisphere. And what's this about a "white Christmas?" in Spring?
Keeping the time in sync with the orbit of the earth isn't just about the "here and now" but also history.