Edwin Pawlowski wrote:

>
> "Default User" > wrote in message
> >
> > I don't know who came with that silly "first day of XX" for the
> > solstices and equinoxes, but there's absolutely no astronomical or
> > meterological basis for it.
>
> It's just easier to make a known event the start of something rather
> than the middle of it.

Not really, December first would be a reasonable choice.

> Not much different than having 12 numbers on
> a clock face.

This doesn't make any sense. Twelve was chosen because it's divisible
by 2, 3, 4, and 6.



Brian

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