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> Is anyone aware of a culture that did/does not have exactly 4 seasons? Ancient Egyptian :-) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egyptian_calendar https://en.wikip
by Someone 5y ago
> Is anyone aware of a culture that did/does not have exactly 4 seasons?
Ancient Egyptian :-)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egyptian_calendar https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egyptian_calendar:
“The ancient Egyptian calendar – a civil calendar – was a solar calendar with a 365-day year. The year consisted of three seasons of 120 days each, plus an intercalary month of five epagomenal days treated as outside of the year proper. Each season was divided into four months of 30 days.”
- aaronharnly 5y agoSo, a better calendar than ours :(
- shagie 5y agoThe Longest Year in Human History (46 B.C.E.) - https://youtu.be/fD-R35DSSZY https://youtu.be/fD-R35DSSZY gets into the "why the year we have is designed the way it is" ... though it takes 22 minutes to get to that part. It wasn't really better as the 30 * 12 + 5 approach needed manual application of the + 5... which is what the new calendar was trying to avoid.
- ncmncm 5y agoI gather +536 felt longer.
- drocer88 5y ago"There are just two seasons in the old Icelandic calendar: [...] summer and winter." https://icelandmonitor.mbl.is/news/news/2015/10/21/do_you_know_your_old_icelandic_months/ https://icelandmonitor.mbl.is/news/news/2015/10/21/do_you_kn...
- jointpdf 5y agoThe local version of this is: there are only two seasons in Michigan—winter and construction.
- alsetmusic 5y agoThere were two in The Bay Area in the early 2000s: wet and dry. Prolonged drought has made us a one-season region, talking about four seasons like other areas.