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Or we could do metric time (files.catbox.moe)

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

All covered in the link. The addition of January and February and later moving the new year from March to January is the reason Sept-Dec are no longer the seventh-tenth months. Not July and August, which were renamings, not additions.

Edit: I suppose my first comment should have specified early Romans. The way I wrote it could be read as all those changes happening after the Romans.