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When I was a kid I assumed that spring started January 1st... since that's when the year started. And then every year I would be like "wow, what an unseasonably
by tolmasky 4y ago
When I was a kid I assumed that spring started January 1st... since that's when the year started. And then every year I would be like "wow, what an unseasonably cold spring this is." Maybe in a few years my belief as a little kid will actually end up becoming true.
- shawabawa3 4y agoFunnily enough the new year did use to start in spring before the adoption of the Gregorian calendar, so you were almost right, just 300 years too late
- tolmasky 4y agoInterestingly, I did learn about that later as a kid, which stuck with me for a completely different reason: the new year used to start on my birthday! (March 25th)
- SSLy 4y agoNew year was moved to january in antiquity, nothing to do with Gregory XIII or his calendar.
- messe 4y agoNot in England, Wales, Ireland and Britain's American colonies, which all made the change of the new year from March to January in 1752 alongside the switch to the Gregorian calendar. Scotland made the change in 1600.
- ConfusedDog 4y agoWe celebrate Spring Festival or Chinese New Year every year around the end of January. I always felt it's weird because it's nothing "spring" about this cold-ass situation.
- michael1999 4y agoAnd that's why the astronomical seasons are bunk, and the meteorological seasons are the way.