TIL that January 1 was chosen as the first day of the year by Julius Caesar as the god Janus (where January got its name) was the god of doors and it made sense that the door was open to the new year.

Quilotoa@lemmy.ca · 1 day ago

TIL that January 1 was chosen as the first day of the year by Julius Caesar as the god Janus (where January got its name) was the god of doors and it made sense that the door was open to the new year.

wischi@programming.dev · 1 day ago

True, but that would lead to the same mess the Iranian calendar has, that you can’t calculate which year will be a leap year. This leads to fragmentation, lot of custom implementations of algorithms that are more or less accurate for the next hundred years.

TIL that January 1 was chosen as the first day of the year by Julius Caesar as the god Janus (where January got its name) was the god of doors and it made sense that the door was open to the new year.

TIL that January 1 was chosen as the first day of the year by Julius Caesar as the god Janus (where January got its name) was the god of doors and it made sense that the door was open to the new year.

Why Does the New Year Start on January 1?