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[–] ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (2 children)

Thank colonialism

Imagine we determined seasons based on the birds flying into a meadow in Japan

Or we measured days in quarters like Thailand (France forced their neighbours to use 24h time but since Thailand…then Ayutthaya and later Siam were never colonized they kept their weird clocks)

Russia never adopted leap years so that’s why Russian New Year is at a different time than the rest of us

[–] JasonDJ@lemmy.zip 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

Well, at least there are global events that correlate to the true seasons - equinoxes and solstices - that can be observed and measured anywhere in the world (except maybe at the geographic north and south poles? Not sure).

[–] ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 1 points 5 months ago

Just because it’s interesting, you can scroll through their seasons

https://www.nippon.com/en/features/h00124/

[–] Motorheadbanger@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Where did you get that about Russia? It's incorrect

[–] ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 1 points 5 months ago

I should have been clear about it being adoption dates