Why is it that the seasons do not align with the beginning/end of the calendar year? For instance, winter in the northern hemisphere (summer in the southern hemisphere) runs from the beginning of December to the end of February. Why is this? I would have thought that when people were inventing calendars way back in the distant past that they would have aligned the beginning of the year with the changing of the seasons or maybe one of the solstices or equinoxes. But it seems like the change of seasons and solstices/equinoxes occur at kind of arbitrary times..
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to oversimplify:
They did for the regions they were created in. Those calendars were either abandoned for other regions calendars or they were modified well beyond the original configuration.
Why? a plethora of reasons.
Such as?
well conquests and business played a roll
We made mistakes in figured them out later fixing them a lot later causing the days to shift.
We added months and redistributed the days for political and religious reasons, this is why october isn’t the eighth month by the by despite “Oct”. Attempts to honor or hamulate Julius Caesar Played a roll and so forth.
Religions moved shit about here and there to line up with politics across civilizations and time. for example: Christs birthday was September not december.
Our ability to measure time became more accurate.
What you’re seeing is the end result of centuries of revision for a too many reasons to count.
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