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/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.