Quilotoa@lemmy.ca to Today I Learned@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 day agoTIL 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.www.mentalfloss.comexternal-linkmessage-square34fedilinkarrow-up1302arrow-down14
arrow-up1298arrow-down1external-linkTIL 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.www.mentalfloss.comQuilotoa@lemmy.ca to Today I Learned@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 day agomessage-square34fedilink
minus-squareFedizen@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5arrow-down1·1 day agoI think this decision was shit because it made the eighth month, october, into the tenth month, ruining the naming convention
minus-squareQuilotoa@lemmy.caOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·23 hours agoYou’ll have to take that up with Julius depending, of course, if you’re going to the same place he is.
minus-squareFedizen@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·22 hours agoJulius hasn’t been forcing people to keep it this way.
I think this decision was shit because it made the eighth month, october, into the tenth month, ruining the naming convention
You’ll have to take that up with Julius depending, of course, if you’re going to the same place he is.
Julius hasn’t been forcing people to keep it this way.
… the ground?