Re: Telling time (wasRe: The English/French counting system (WAS:number systems fromconlangs))

Mark J. Reed scripsit:

> > I have never yet learned why the Orthodox liturgical year
> > begins in September.
>
> It's a continuation of the Jewish tradition that the year
> begins with the fall harvest; it's the same reason that
> the Jewish New Year is celebrated, and the year number changed,
> on Tishri 1 in the fall, even though Tishri is counted as
> the 7th month of the Jewish year.
Specifically, the Byzantines decided that the date of Creation was
1 September, and ran their Anno Mundi year-counting system forward
from 5509 B.C. (Julian, obviously).  The Orthodox churches naturally
kept the same year periods, even when adopting the (originally Latin)
basis year of 753 A.U.C = 1 A.D.

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