Why is it that our calender has been allowed to continue on with such screwed up names for the months ?

Who sanctioned the calender with September, October, November and December not lining up with their Latin Names ?

September is Related to The Number Seven, but is the Ninth Month?

October is Related to The Number Eight, but is the Tenth Month?

November is Related to The Number Nine, but is the Eleventh Month?

December is Related to The Number Ten, but is the Twelfth Month ?

That's always bugged me . . .

So do you want to move July and August to the end of the year? Or do you want to make March first the beginning of the New Year?

You`re up at 2 am thinking about the names of months?

Yeah, when some asks a question about time, Noon/Midnight, why not . . .

And why have a month with 28 days then one with 31??? Can't we let Feb. have another day or two?

If you moved July and Aug to the end of the year, the seasons wouldn't match up.

Could you imagine going from spring to fall to winter then to summer? That wouldn't be right either.

lol.......and you guys laughed at me when I was pondering the heat from the sun 😛.......see, these are just things that the thinkers think about.......we don't sleep much.

yeah im still pondering the febuary thing. like they couldnt break it down a little more evenly.

well some of us know why its the shortest month of the year (ever hear thhaaatt joke)

I'm quite sure it will be discovered that President Bush did it.

just wondering why a month named after EIGHT would be given the desination of TEN, and so on . . .

In the early Roman calendar, the year began in March (March was the first month).

Now you can get some sleep Derek!

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The question is ...why can't it be fixed?

actually, i thought july and august were late additions to the modern day calendar. they were put into place and named such after the roman emperors julius and augustus caesar. why were they added? i don't remember, but i'm pretty sure that's where the screwed up naming/numbering came to be.

And at this late date, why change it? Kind of like when I was in school and they were teaching us the metric system because the switch over was coming soon - soon - soon.

The Roman year used to start in March. When Julius Caesar reorganised the calendar and made it start in January, he kept the old names, except for one month, which he named after himself (July). Augustus Caesar came after Julius Caesar and changed the name of another month (August).

my understanding is that the Roman calendar had ten months, but was not consistent with the actual year.i.e., the first of the year on the Roman calendar would move a few days every year with relation to the Celestial year. So they added two months to the calendar and changed the length of the months. The concept of a Leap Year was actually invented by the Egyptians and refined by the Romans. There was a further adjustment during the Middle Ages where the calendar was moved to its current state - one extra day every four years except for century years that are not evenly divisible by 400. I believe this calendar is accurate to within a day every 3300 years

http://www.infoplease.com/spot/leapyear2.html 

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