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Re:Why we’re switching to calendar versioning by bigdubs on Sunday April 14, 2019 @11:14AM (#19659859)
I'm not conding the spring/summer naming (personally I'd just leave it at january/june), but the bulk of the world's population lives in the northern hemisphere, and not by a little, by a lot.

http://www.radicalcartography.net/index.html?histpop

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Re:Why we’re switching to calendar versioning by ClassyJacket on Sunday April 14, 2019 @11:54AM (#19660112)
Who cares unless literally all of them do.
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Re:Why we’re switching to calendar versioning by bigdubs on Sunday April 14, 2019 @01:56PM (#19660707)
Just adding context in case people thought the populations were roughly equivalent. It has bearing in the validity of choosing something the majority of people would understand.
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Re:Why we’re switching to calendar versioning by paulddraper on Sunday April 14, 2019 @07:19PM (#19662267)
For the same reason that software documentation is almost always in English.
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