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Wouldn't it make more sense to start seasons around the 1st of a month instead of the 21st?

Asked by LostInParadise (31921points) February 7th, 2014

It would make things simpler to have winter, spring summer and fall start on the first days of January, April, July and October. I suppose nobody else is much concerned about this, since I have never seen it discussed anywhere. I did a Web search and found out that the 21st was chosen so that Easter would fall around the beginning of spring I don’t mean to offend any Christians here, but is this really important? If Pope Gregory had removed a few more days from 1582, he could have had things lined up so that they make sense.

Something else I thought of. Might this be related to the start of the astrological calendar divisions occurring around the 21st also?

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