Personally, I would go for naming them after the twelve largest moons in the solar system, since they were originally (and still are in many cultures) based on the lunar cycles, giving the months Ganymede, Titan, Callisto, etc.

What would you rename the months?

edit: Simply using the numbers is already a thing (see, for example, 2026-01-01. January is represented as month 1), and reordering the existing month names would be a real headache, as it would be difficult to tell whether you are reading a date using the old or new naming scheme.

  • captainlezbian@lemmy.world
    3·
    12 hours ago
    1. Calm
    2. Ice
    3. Rise
    4. Rebirth
    5. Life
    6. Sun
    7. Vitality
    8. Fire
    9. Set
    10. Harvest
    11. Death
    12. Moon

    I wanted each to be a pair with 6 months apart and for the solstices and equinoxes to each have an appropriate name

  • humanspiral@lemmy.ca
    3·
    12 hours ago

    13 months of 28 days each. New Years is its own day outside of a month. Monday is first of each month. New Year’s is not a day of the week. Leap year feb 29th is moved to May to be a nice weather day for most of the world. It too is a holiday, and not a day of the week.

    Name this holiday, and bonus, the 13 months.

    • sbird@sopuli.xyzOPEnglish
      1·
      1 day ago

      You are queueing in a line. But You 31st, need to wait so long! So frightening, like Halloween.

      I tried my best. You could probably do something with Me 25th as well.

  • melsaskca@lemmy.ca
    4·
    20 hours ago

    I’d pull out ‘July’ and ‘August’, move everything else up two spaces and put ‘July’ and ‘August’ at the end.

  • NateNate60@lemmy.world
    12·
    1 day ago

    No love for the French Republican Calendar months?

    1. Pluvose
    2. Ventose
    3. Germinal
    4. Floreal
    5. Prarial
    6. Messidor
    7. Thermidor
    8. Fructidor
    9. Vendemiaire
    10. Brumaire
    11. Frimaire
    12. Nivose

    People who know their Latin roots might know what these months are named after, but here’s a guide:

    1. “pluviosus”, meaning “rain”
    2. “ventosus”, meaning “windy”
    3. “germen”, meaning “germination” (of a plant)
    4. “flos”, meaning “flower”; or “floreo”, meaning “blossom” (of a flower)
    5. “prairie” (field)
    6. “messis”, meaning “harvest”
    7. “θερμός”, meaning “hot” in Greek
    8. “fructus”, meaning “fruit”
    9. “vindemia”, meaning “vintage” (harvesting of grapes)
    10. “brume”, meaning “fog” in French
    11. “frimas”, meaning “frost” in French
    12. “nivosus”, meaning “snowy”

    Today (2026-03-23 UTC) would be the 23rd of Germinal, 2026 CE.

    • cannedtuna@lemmy.worldEnglish
      13·
      2 days ago

      Here, is this better?

      Monember

      Dicember

      Triember

      Tetrember

      Pentamber

      Hexamber

      September

      October

      November

      December

      Undecember

      Dodecember

      • Cocodapuf@lemmy.world
        4·
        20 hours ago

        You know what… I’ve never seen this before, but I fully endorse this solution. This is mostly what we already have in place, but favoring consistency rather than flattering Roman emperors.

        For those who didn’t know,

        • August - named after Augustus Caesar
        • July - named after Julius Caeser

        Also, a few others are named after Roman gods. It’s cool, but not super relevant to anyone today.

    • felbane@lemmy.world
      20·
      2 days ago

      I’ll second the IFC. My only addition would be that the Year Day and the Leap Day are mandatory holidays: fucking everything except critical utility infrastructure shift/on-call work (police, fire, power/water/sewage, etc) is closed. Employers must not require an employee to work consecutive Year or Leap Days.

      • cannedtuna@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        2 days ago

        If you edit your comment to enclose the link in square brackets and an exclamation point at before the open bracket it will show the image. Like below:

        ![link]

        If you copy this, just remove the `, those are there to show it as code rather than trying to display an empty image, and replace the work link

        • coreray00@discuss.onlineEnglish
          1·
          1 day ago

          Thanks! I’m not gonna edit it on my cell. If anyone wants to, go for it! I don’t own the image, I just thought it was relevant

  • LORDSMEGMA@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    391·
    2 days ago

    Oneuary, twouary, threeuary, fouruary, fiveuary, sixuary, sevenuary, eightuary, nineuary, tenuary, elevenuary, twelveuary

    • Rednax@lemmy.world
      9·
      1 day ago

      If you do that in Latin, you get names like September, October, and December. Just make sure not to randomly insert two extra months, making sevenuary by the 9th month.

      • isyasad@lemmy.world
        2·
        14 hours ago

        The idea that July and August were added and shifted the months to be wrong is actually a misconception afaik. The months they replaced were already basically “fiveuary” and “sixuary”.
        The numbering got shifted off when they decided January should be the first month; it used to be March. February was the last month, which explains why leap days are added to February.

      • NateNate60@lemmy.world
        6·
        1 day ago

        Monuary, Dotuary, Trituary, Quadtember, Quintober, Sextember, September, October, November, December, Undecember, Dodecember

    • raspberriesareyummy@lemmy.world
      12·
      2 days ago

      Oneember, Twoember, Threeember, Fourember, Fiveember, Sixember, Sevenember, Eightember, November (just to fuck with people), Tenember, Elevenember, Twelveember

            • Cocodapuf@lemmy.world
              2·
              20 hours ago

              How does this line up with lunar cycles? Is the solar year closer to 12 or 13 months?

              Edit: I decided to answer my own question. It turns out there are about 12.4 lunar cycles per solar year, so it does fall right between 12 and 13, meaning that (in my opinion) both 12 and 13 months seem like reasonable systems.

              Unfortunately it also means there’s no way to really sync the months with the year perfectly.

              A side note on the solar year/lunar month not lining up… I know that planets in a star system tend to fall into resonant orbits, so you’ll often see common ratios in planetary orbital periods, making occultations more common (when planets all line up). But I actually don’t know how this relates to a planet’s moons.

    • sbird@sopuli.xyzOPEnglish
      2·
      1 day ago

      But then dates written like 2026-01-01 in the old format would be interpreted as being one month ahead! The reverse may also happen too. That sounds like a very bad idea

  • zeet@lemmy.worldEnglish
    22·
    1 day ago

    April, August, December, Februrary, March, May, January, July, June, November, October, September

    (i.e. the existing names but alphabetised)

    (EDIT: J traditionally comes before M. Am idiot.)

    • sbird@sopuli.xyzOPEnglish
      11·
      1 day ago

      This wouldn’t be a good idea, as then people would easily mix up dates using the old names with your system (e.g. January would go from being the first month to being the seventh!)

  • Pamasich@kbin.earth
    2·
    1 day ago

    In which language, English? Though why would renaming them in English require the approval of everyone in the world?

    I’d say you don’t even need the approval of everyone living in an English-speaking country. It’s not like the US and UK use all the same words, for example. I think it’s fine for one English country to unilaterally rename them, no need for wider approval.

  • tiredofsametab@fedia.io
    2·
    1 day ago

    I would remove names. Many languages don’t have separate names and work just fine (Japanese, for instance)

    * technically Japan has month names, but no one uses them at all in daily life. My wife can’t even list them all right now, heh.