• Ashe@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    8 months ago

    Seasons vary by hemisphere, and it’s counterintuitive to force half of the globe to accept summer as winter or winter as summer.

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      8 months ago

      Nothing stopping the other half from just flipping it to match their seasons, that’s what they do already, and the number for date stays the same anyways

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        8 months ago

        I work and converse with people globally, as much as I love the idea of being able to use seasons as a marker of time like that, it’s just not possible.

        Now let’s work on names for this 13th month…

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          8 months ago

          Onzember based on how the last few months starting with September are all just part of a number in Portuguese/Spanish (and maybe other languages) + ember. Ex: November = Nove + ember, Onzember = Onze + ember

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      8 months ago

      Hey technically only 12% of the world’s population lives in the southern hemisphere. Nowhere close to half.