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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsWhy is the Autumnal Equinox So Late in the Month?
The other equinox and both solstices are on the 20th or 21st of the months they occur in. Why is the fall equink, which just occurred this very minute, always on Sept. 22nd or 23rd?
rampartc
(5,458 posts)and that left august with only 30 days so augustus had to steal another day from February?
Fan of Da Bearse
(75 posts)That's the first of the seasonal changes after February. I've also considered July and August both being 31 days long, but wouldn't those extra days take up what September would have had? If anything, autumn should begin earlier than it actually does!
marble falls
(57,567 posts)its all verkakte and doesn't mean a thing!
PoliticAverse
(26,366 posts)Sherman A1
(38,958 posts)remember the calendar is an artificial construct by us human types.
Cirque du So-What
(26,037 posts)Pushes the autumnal equinox out a day on the calendar. If that don't work for ya, I'm changing my answer to 'just because.'
Bernardo de La Paz
(49,084 posts)2naSalit
(86,978 posts)Freddie
(9,282 posts)Too important a day to have an equinox too