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Wasn't December originally the tenth month of the year, before a couple more months got added?
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Yup that's what the Dec in December is for, Sept for 7, Oct for 8 and Nov for 9.
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Wasn't December originally the tenth month of the year, before a couple more months got added?
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Holy shit, I never even noticed this.
![]() ![]() Then there's the whole Gregorian shift exercise which different countries did at different times. I've got a book about it somewhere and it's quite eye opening when you realise just how arbitrary it all is and how much it has changed. |
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I love and hate this day!
Day length 7:49:40 and it's all uphill from now even if it is only a few seconds a day to start with.. I hate the short days and long nights and on this day I always feel we're turning a corner and moving upwards towards Spring. It's something I'd rather celebrate than Christmas although I know Christmas was hijacked from the pagan festival of the WInter Solstice. ![]() We had friends down there and their children had made their lanterns so we joined the parade through the streets with hundreds of others with lanterns of all shapes and sizes, dancers and street entertainers. The culmination of the evening was on the beach and passing all the lanterns on to a huge pile for a bonfire where they were all burned. Obviously a bit late for this year, but this event seems to have become a huge success going by the photos and news items I saw on it last night. http://www.samesky.co.uk/ |
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I love and hate this day!
Day length 7:49:40 and it's all uphill from now even if it is only a few seconds a day to start with.. I hate the short days and long nights and on this day I always feel we're turning a corner and moving upwards towards Spring. It's something I'd rather celebrate than Christmas although I know Christmas was hijacked from the pagan festival of the WInter Solstice. ![]() example South East location |
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It's a glacially slow process at first, and really isn't meaningfully noticeable until about February, when the lengthening day process really starts to speed up, such that (in the South, for example) by late March just before the clocks go forward, the sunrise time is about 5:46am.
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The sunrise time is still getting later and will continue to do so until about December 31
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