[mijkal]

> Then they got lazy and just numbered the months.

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This pattern is fairly common around the world.

It's amusing to me that in the Western world, the original Latin designations are off by two as we moved the start month but never adjusted the corresponding month numbers (so DECember (10) = 12, etc).

[euroderf]

Render unto Caesar the two months that are Caesar's.

[fomine3]

And the tm_mon starts from 0