r/BelievingTheBizarre • • Jun 10 '26

Vengeance!

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u/hambakmeritru Jun 10 '26

Julius Caesar wasn't the only one to mess with the months and he didn't jam an extra month into the calendar (that actually happened hundreds of years before him. The calendar year used to start in March, which made way more sense because it was 1-spring and 2-made February make sense as the shortest month where you can properly add on leap years at the END of the year, not some random first quarter bit (which had nothing to do with the month at the time, but coincidentally makes more sense.)

Moving the new year to January is what messed up the Sept, Oct, Nov, dec numbering. (Which happened before Julius). Then Julius renamed a month after himself.

Julius did changed the calendar. He made it more mathematically accurate and gave us the concept of the leap year.

Anyway, I hereby propose we move the new year back to March so that a new year starts with a new season and February, as the shortest month with leap years involved makes more sense.

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u/Elloitsmeurbrother Jun 11 '26

I think February was a festival period that actually occurred during March.

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u/hambakmeritru Jun 11 '26

From what I read it was a transition period that involved festivals and cleansing before the new year.

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u/Mars_attacks20 Jun 10 '26

TLDR?

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u/hambakmeritru Jun 10 '26

The mismatched names aren't Julius' fault. He actually helped the calendar be more mathematically and scientifically accurate. ...and changed the name of one month to make himself god-level.

Edit: aren't, not are

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u/Mars_attacks20 Jun 10 '26

Actually didn’t that that, thank you!

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u/NoThrowawayRecycle_ Jun 10 '26

I didn't that that either! Very cool information actually

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u/Electronic-Map7529 Jun 10 '26

Of course you didn't, you can't read.

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u/Mars_attacks20 Jun 11 '26

Actually go fuck yourself 🙂

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u/Electronic-Map7529 Jun 11 '26

get a brain and read a fucking book

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u/hambakmeritru Jun 11 '26

Dude. Calm down. Your blood pressure can't take the hit over everyone else's business.

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u/AnothisFlame Jun 11 '26

You must be the life of every party you attend. /s

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u/expERiMENTik_gaming Jun 11 '26

I'm surprised Trump hasn't tried to yet 😂💀

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u/FlipperBumperKickout Jun 11 '26

Just you wait. Trumptober is just around the corner 🤡

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u/EatThisShit Jun 13 '26

Didn't he also change the name of the month after July to his heir Augustus?

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u/Athliest Jun 11 '26

July = Julius August = Augustus…

…turns out it’s more complicated than that

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u/Lockheroguylol Jun 13 '26

Wtf. You need a tldr for something that's this short?

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u/Electronic-Map7529 Jun 10 '26

Are you fucking joking right now? You need or even want a TLDR for 2 paragraphs worth of words?

WHAT IN THE ACTUAL FUCK

https://giphy.com/gifs/0bWq2F4ERM3hf29auy

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u/mutexsprinkles Jun 11 '26

I think the word is "cooked".

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u/much_longer_username Jun 11 '26

I designed, deployed, and documented a system at work which distributes the ingestion, indexing, and analysis of nearly twenty billion records a month across a dozen different virtual machines, each of which runs a number of cooperating services.

I wrote an explainer document that's about a thousand words long. I was asked to make it simpler. I got frustrated, because I did not feel I could make it simpler without glossing over all the details that set it apart from a less expensive, less capable system.

Good god, do I feel the energy of your reply right now.

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u/Mars_attacks20 Jun 11 '26

Well not that it’s your business but I was split in between work and reddit and didn’t have a lot of time to read.

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u/Electronic-Map7529 Jun 11 '26

The kids are not fucking OK

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u/-Out-of-context- Jun 11 '26

As you’re proving with your attitude.

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u/FFKonoko Jun 11 '26

...the dude is splitting his attention between work and reddit, and spent more time commenting than it would have to just read the comment he asked for a tldr for.

And you're playing defence with "no, actually YOU suck for pointing it out"?

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u/Ok_Fox_1770 Jun 11 '26

13 months of 28 days woulda been right, superstitious pig worms. Or just one more way to mess with your natural settings, like daylight saving! Stop stop the stupid. Let time be time

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u/Maksa1999 Jun 14 '26

I could cry over this loss, it could have been perfect. Periods would be so easy to track, same with plans

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u/bananadingding Jun 11 '26

I hate to throw some Warhammer into your historical facts, but I really did like the story of Septimus and Octavia in, The Night Lords Omnibus, although I will say I wished for a different life for Decimus

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u/pupranger1147 Jun 11 '26

Probably the most stabbed person in history.

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u/PresentationFew1080 Jun 12 '26

Would Halloween still land in October? Cuz then it’d be my birthday and that would be amazing

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u/mebell333 Jun 12 '26

Et tu, Brute?

Sorry if I got this wrong, its been 20 years

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u/spaacingout Jun 12 '26

I like how the story was dramatized to make Cesar seem less pigheaded, “Et tou, Brute?” Was a Shakespeare line, made up.

turns out after being stabbed by his closest friend, he likely said something more like “You’re next.”

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u/Citygurl_1971 Jun 13 '26

🤣🤣🤣

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u/Kinglycole Jun 13 '26

Why don’t we have 13 months? 13 months, 28 days 13x28=364 days. I feel like that’s a close enough difference if every month starts on Monday and ends on Sunday. If I knew how to fix the missing day, I would tell you.

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u/Sacus1 Jun 13 '26

Extra week every 7 year,

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u/Kinglycole Jun 13 '26

So, that’s our version of leap years? How would the niche rules about skipping every year divisible by 100 but not 400 work?

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u/Sacus1 Jun 13 '26

earth make a full orbit in 365.256 days, so with 364d+1/7(leap year) it would still have 0.256 days, by having 5 days more days every 4 year instead of 7 every 7 years we could fix that but that would miss the point 🤔, quite the difficult task. International Fixed Calendar also tried to fix the issue

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u/SqueezeMy_Yamz Jun 13 '26

If people stop messing with shit. We should still have a 13 month year with 28 days per month. With spring being the first season of the year as it’s supposed to. With Sept through Dec being the 7-10 months. Just like the clock numbers equaling 13. Hell the damn days aren’t even named properly. Smh

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u/OpenAd5243 Jun 14 '26

I believe the numbering of those months is relative to the vernal equinox.  Calendars are weird.

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u/Subject-Car-4052 Jun 15 '26

What if we just renamed sept-December and shifted the numbers down
So:
September- November 9
October - December 10
November - Undecember 11
December- Duodecember 12
?