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I thought it was late March, around the time of the equinox? March was still the 1st month, but the year didn't start until towards the end of it. Notably, I t

I thought it was late March, around the time of the equinox? March was still the 1st month, but the year didn't start until towards the end of it. Notably, I thought the accounting/tax year started in late March, and didn't change to January because figuring out a 10-month accounting/tax year would be a nightmare. But also, accountants didn't skip the days that everyone else did when moving from the Julian to the Gregorian calendar, because paying people 2/3 of a month's salary and charging 2/3 of a month's rent would also be a nightmare, which is why the accounting/tax year now starts on April 6th? (Calendars are weird, yo!)

donalhunt 3y ago
Falsehoods programmers believe about time https://gist.github.com/timvisee/fcda9bbdff88d45cc9061606b4b923ca https://gist.github.com/timvisee/fcda9bbdff88d45cc9061606b4b... And more complete list: https://github.com/kdeldycke/awesome-falsehood?tab=readme-ov-file#dates-and-time https://github.com/kdeldycke/awesome-falsehood?tab=readme-ov...
- throw0101c 3y ago
  > https://gist.github.com/timvisee/fcda9bbdff88d45cc9061606b4b923ca https://gist.github.com/timvisee/fcda9bbdff88d45cc9061606b4b... It would be nice if they linked to examples of the exceptions.
zinekeller 3y ago
That's English-specific (the March 25th thingy), and only started at around 1155 (the reason being that March 25 is the approximate day of spring equinox). It is true that the Romans did have March (name from Mars the Romam deity) as the start of the year (July would have been Quintillius (fifth month) for example).