Funny enough, that’s actually not true. July and August were originally named Quintilis and Sextilis (5th month and 6th month respectively) and were both renamed by the Senate well after Julius and Augustus died to honor them.
January and February were (re-added) later by Pompilius to sync the Roman calendar with a lunar year (364 days).
Unless you meant Pompilius, but he added those months for totally legitimate reasons.
They come from Latin.
Ante meridies - before mid day
Post meridies - after mid day
If you think this is stupid, just wait until you look into how Rome did days of the month
The months themselves were fine until some emperor toddled along and fucked with them. Now Tenmonth is the 12th month. Ugh!
Funny enough, that’s actually not true. July and August were originally named Quintilis and Sextilis (5th month and 6th month respectively) and were both renamed by the Senate well after Julius and Augustus died to honor them.
January and February were (re-added) later by Pompilius to sync the Roman calendar with a lunar year (364 days).
Unless you meant Pompilius, but he added those months for totally legitimate reasons.
how about ad meridies for midday…? and ad noctis for midnight I guess
12 noon is mid day, so how can it be after itself?
Everything after 12:00:00.000000…0 is technically after noon. However, there were (are?) different convention on whether noon is am or pm.
Who’s to say mid day is exactly 12:00:00.0…?
12could be the mid day hour.With daylight savings 1PM is actually midday (or 11am? Idfk)
how do you say “daylight savings” in the original latin
hora legítima (in Italian: ora legale)
https://www.vatican.va/roman_curia/institutions_connected/latinitas/documents/rc_latinitas_20040601_lexicon_it.html