amniotic druid@lemmy.world to Unpopular Opinion@lemmy.worldEnglish · 10 days ago[In the US] If we can give a floating date to a "real" (but lame) holiday like Thanksgiving, there's no reason we can't do the same for Halloween and codify it as the last Friday/Saturday of October.message-squaremessage-square10linkfedilinkarrow-up128arrow-down14file-text
arrow-up124arrow-down1message-square[In the US] If we can give a floating date to a "real" (but lame) holiday like Thanksgiving, there's no reason we can't do the same for Halloween and codify it as the last Friday/Saturday of October.amniotic druid@lemmy.world to Unpopular Opinion@lemmy.worldEnglish · 10 days agomessage-square10linkfedilinkfile-text
minus-squaredumples@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·10 days agoWhile I appreciate the idea. Halloween happens to be based on Samhain which is the midpoint between the Autumnal Equinox and Winter Solstice. The best method would be to rearrange the whole calendar so it’s always on a Friday. We would then have static days of the week for all dates as well
While I appreciate the idea. Halloween happens to be based on Samhain which is the midpoint between the Autumnal Equinox and Winter Solstice.
The best method would be to rearrange the whole calendar so it’s always on a Friday. We would then have static days of the week for all dates as well