And it has an extra day tacked onto it every four years. It's very weird.
Hmm. As I recall, there are actually a few different calendars that societies on Earth would go by. I think they all tried to match up with the cycles of the moon, or the positions of stars, or just the plain old seasons. But then the Romans introduced a calendar of their own, and since they had taken over a majority of the civilized world a long time ago, that stuck - and then the Christians changed THAT one, and since that was the religion that made up a third of the population of Earth, it kind of stuck. There's still holidays carried over from a lot of older beliefs that got twisted and changed, and I suppose they could be markers of where the months are supposed to go. You know, things like Easter and Christmas and Halloween...
Oh, goodness! I've went and typed up a whole ramble on it. Sorry, I guess my mind got away from me for a minute there! Basically, the short version is: one calendar system beat out the others to be most prevalent, and nobody's bothered to change it in a very long time.
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It's very weird.
Hmm. As I recall, there are actually a few different calendars that societies on Earth would go by.
I think they all tried to match up with the cycles of the moon, or the positions of stars, or just the plain old seasons.
But then the Romans introduced a calendar of their own, and since they had taken over a majority of the civilized world a long time ago, that stuck - and then the Christians changed THAT one, and since that was the religion that made up a third of the population of Earth, it kind of stuck.
There's still holidays carried over from a lot of older beliefs that got twisted and changed, and I suppose they could be markers of where the months are supposed to go.
You know, things like Easter and Christmas and Halloween...
Oh, goodness! I've went and typed up a whole ramble on it. Sorry, I guess my mind got away from me for a minute there!
Basically, the short version is: one calendar system beat out the others to be most prevalent, and nobody's bothered to change it in a very long time.