Eli5:why we use the solar calendar instead of the lunar calendar?
In: Planetary Science
The lunar calendar doesn’t tell us much. What changes from one full moon to the next? Not much. Without looking it up, what even is the current phase of the moon? Most don’t know because it doesn’t affect their day to day life.
But the solar calendar matches with a full round of all the seasons, which are extremely important for society; the spring as plants start to grow, the heat and possible droughts of summer, into the harvest season of fall, preparing for the harsh cold and lack of food in winter, waiting for the warmth of spring again. And even by the equator, there are rain seasons, storm seasons, dry seasons, that sort of thing. It’s important for survival to spend the present preparing for each coming season. This is all determined by where we are in the solar cycle.
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