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I'd be curious to know what countries don't start the year January 1st and where the origin of their chosen day comes from. I know China's new year is differen

I'd be curious to know what countries don't start the year January 1st and where the origin of their chosen day comes from. I know China's new year is different by a ~3 weeks? Also, I only know a little USA and Japanese culture but it's interesting various calendar related things like where I grew up, SoCal, elementary, middle, and high school school started 2nd week in September. College also started around the same time. In Japan it starts first week of April and so do new jobs for college grads (Japan generally makes a distinction between no-experience college grads and experienced employees and job listing will often say which one the job is for)

adastra22 4y ago
The Chinese New Year is based on the lunar calendar. How much it differs from the solar calendar changes a lot from year to year. Other East Asian countries don't always share the same lunar new year.
iggldiggl 4y ago
> elementary, middle, and high school school started 2nd week in September. College also started around the same time. And in Germany the academic year at universities traditionally starts in October, with classes starting in the second or third week of October (and my particular alma mater apparently tending to start classes one week even later than a few random other universities I've looked up). (Which I had to explain to a Canadian border guard when I was visiting Canada near the end of September a few years ago with regards to how come I didn't already have classes if I was claiming to be a student, since in Canada classes had of course already started for the fall term at that point.)