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Not sure if this is unpopular or not, but here's it is.
As opposed to starting the year in January, the year should begin in March. I would not change anything else about the months or seasons. March would still take place at the beginning of spring as always, all that will change is that New Years day would be March 1st.
There are several benefits to this that make the calendar more intuitive:
The best part about this is I cannot foresee any issues at all switching to the new system and don't think it would cause any unnecessary confusion.
Anyway this is my theory. I realise by the way that this would probably never happen and would be a more effort than it is worth to implement, but if I were king of the world this is what I would do.
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As opposed to starting the year in January, the year should begin in March. I would not change anything else about the months or seasons. March would still take place at the beginning of spring as always, all that will change is that New Years day would be March 1st.
There are several benefits to this that make the calendar more intuitive:
- The beginning of Spring is the beginning of the new year. Shit is born in spring, it dies in Winter. The New Year should mark the beginning of new life as opposed to it starting in the middle of winter when everything is cold and grey.
- Warmer weather to celebrate the New Year period.
- It moves New Year away from Christmas allowing New Year to be more of it's own thing.
- It brings western and Chinese New Year into closer alignment.
- The month which varies in length, February, would now be at the end of the year where it rightly belongs not after the second month which is weird.
- It used to work this way anyway. It changed because of something to do with Roman campaign seasons.
- [Edit] it brings September, October, November and December back into alignment as the 7th to 10th months.
- [Edit] Yeah it doesn't line up as nicely for the Southern Hemisphere but even then starting in Autumn seems more reasonable than starting in the middle of Summer.
The best part about this is I cannot foresee any issues at all switching to the new system and don't think it would cause any unnecessary confusion.
Anyway this is my theory. I realise by the way that this would probably never happen and would be a more effort than it is worth to implement, but if I were king of the world this is what I would do.
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