New days begin at dawn New years begin in the spring Our ancestors knew this Our industrial timekeeping conventions are an abomination We need an aesthetic neoconfuscian rectification of UTC
Blame Caesar for the year beginning in the middle of winter. Or I guess Cleopatra's court astronomer, who told him to do that.
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Though apparently Rome been gradually switch from March 1 to Jan 1 as the new year for some time. Hmm.
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I thought I remembered that some Roman emperor moved the new year to the middle of winter because he wasn't allowed to start a war until "the new year", but my Google fu isn't strong enough to find this.
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