What I meant to suggest, TNT, is that winter, and particularly January and February, seem interminably long to me. And the spring is very slow in coming. But I love May, June, July, August and September.TNT wrote:Well, some people think differently.
Oh, you're so right, Orin! Of course there are a few beautiful days during each winter season. I just hate winter so much that I very actively searched for winter pictures that would look ugly and depressing. First I googled "January", but I got nothing that I liked (translation: I foundorin stepanek wrote:Ann there is beauty in winter scenes! I know it's in the eye of the beholder! I just don't like the cold.
When I was a kid I loved winter. We would to play fox and goose; and make snowmen; and build snow forts etc. But the older you get the colder it feels! I guess that is because metabolism slows down. Even blizzards can be beautiful if your in a safe place. I just hate the cold. Have a Hot Toddy! Gosh BMAONE23! I'd trade you one of your winters for one of mine! Unless it's pretty smoggy!BMAONE23 wrote:Were those from octobernovember or februarymarch?
Other than that; we liked California pretty much.
The early Roman calendar, which our calendar is based on, had ten months, beginning in March. Much of winter was not assigned to any month at all. Before the egos of emperors got involved, July was Quintilis and August was Septilis. During one of the early calendar reforms, January and February were added, so that every day fell in a named month. That made March the third month, not the first, and shifted all the months ahead by two. Hence, the peculiar naming we have today.sea otter wrote:Why, pray tell, do the months from Sept. - Dec. correspond, in name, to months two previous? Sept., Oct., Nov., Dec. = 7, 8, 9, 10
As Europe Changed from the Julian into the Gregorian Calendar - since the Julian Calender couldn't keep the time, but lagged behind - it was considered necessary to simply take a couple of days away from a certain year and indeed being open about it. (I guess the fact of the pilfering of the days would be pretty hard to hide.)sea otter wrote:Why, pray tell, do the months from Sept. - Dec. correspond, in name, to months two previous? Sept., Oct., Nov., Dec. = 7, 8, 9, 10
I just hope that someone isn't taking a couple months per year away from us without being open about it.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gregorian_ ... ndar_dates wrote:
The Gregorian calendar, also known as the Western calendar, or Christian calendar, is the internationally accepted civil calendar.[1][2][3] It was introduced by Pope Gregory XIII, after whom the calendar was named, by a decree signed on 24 February 1582, a papal bull known by its opening words Inter gravissimas.[4] The reformed calendar was adopted later that year by a handful of countries, with other countries adopting it over the following centuries. The motivation for the Gregorian reform was that the Julian calendar assumes that the time between vernal equinoxes is 365.25 days, when in fact it is presently almost exactly 11 minutes shorter. The error between these values accumulated at the rate of about three days every four centuries, resulting in the equinox occurring on March 11 (an accumulated error of about 10 days) and moving steadily earlier in the Julian calendar at the time of the Gregorian reform.
In addition to the change in the mean length of the calendar year from 365.25 days (365 days 6 hours) to 365.2425 days (365 days 5 hours 49 minutes 12 seconds), a reduction of 10 minutes 48 seconds per year, the Gregorian calendar reform also dealt with the past accumulated difference between these lengths. Between AD 325 (when the Roman Catholic Church thought the First Council of Nicaea had fixed the vernal equinox on 21 March), and the time of Pope Gregory's bull in 1582, the vernal equinox had moved backward in the calendar, until it was occurring on about 11 March, 10 days earlier. The Gregorian calendar therefore began by skipping 10 calendar days, to restore March 21 as the date of the vernal equinox.
Sweden's adoption of the Gregorian Calendar was even messier, but I'll spare you. Read about it in the Wikipedia article if you are interested.Britain and the British Empire (including the eastern part of what is now the United States) adopted the Gregorian calendar in 1752, by which time it was necessary to correct by 11 days. Wednesday, 2 September 1752 was followed by Thursday, 14 September 1752. Claims that rioters demanded "Give us our eleven days" grew out of a misinterpretation of a painting by William Hogarth.
Aww... c'mon Ann, don't leave out the good stuffAnn wrote:Sweden's adoption of the Gregorian Calendar was even messier, but I'll spare you. Read about it in the Wikipedia article if you are interested.
) there was speculation of a calendar with 13 even months; 52 weeks with a year day for the extra day and a world day for each leap year. Each day would always be on the same day of the week. For instance; if February 2 was on a Monday; it would be on a Monday every year. I don't know what happened to this idea; but it never bore fruit! 
Although there was much buzz about it, it was -not to bee-, therefore never pollinated, thus no fruit.orin stepanek wrote:When in high school (long long ago
No, no fruitful years were had out of it!Beyond wrote:Although there was much buzz about it, it was -not to bee-, therefore never pollinated, thus no fruit.orin stepanek wrote:When in high school (long long ago
The history of calendar reforms is a history of power. Calendars were reformed by emperors and popes (when being Pope meant something). We don't have any leaders with substantial, absolute power over most of the world anymore. There's nobody to change the calendar. (We can't even agree on changes to save the world... a new calendar isn't even on the radar!)orin stepanek wrote:When in high school (long long ago :mrgreen: ) there was speculation of a calendar with 13 even months; 52 weeks with a year day for the extra day and a world day for each leap year. Each day would always be on the same day of the week. For instance; if February 2 was on a Monday; it would be on a Monday every year. I don't know what happened to this idea; but it never bore fruit! :roll:
