Re: "par coeur" origin


"Franz Gnaedinger" <frgn@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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For the record, my message has been killrated,
but of course nobody can answer my question.
....
Now I wait for your explanation of the wrong numbers implied
by the names of September October November December
in our calendar (guess I'll have to wait for 14,999 years).

Hi Franz, was this your question?

The explanation is simple and historical. Our calendar is Roman in origin.
The first month of the Roman calendar was March, which marked the beginning
of the military campaign season. Caesar's calendar reforms included starting
the year in January; the Gregorian calendar also used January 1 as New
Year's Day. Many countries only changed to starting with January relatively
recently (France in 1564, Great Britain in 1752).

Obviously, if you count from March, then September is indeed the seventh
month, and all of the numbers work properly.

There's no reason to pretend that there's anything stone-age happening here!

Neeraj Mathur


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