Reply to post: Re: Dates

It's Pi day: Care to stuff a brand new Raspberry one in your wallet?

Charles 9

Re: Dates

"I mean it isn't like September, October, November, and December are the 7th, 8th, 9th, and 10th months."

Recall they WERE once, as IIRC the names came from the Roman calendar. Blame Julius Caesar for not getting the names straight when he was trying to correct for the tropical year.

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