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.
- Calm
- Ice
- Rise
- Rebirth
- Life
- Sun
- Vitality
- Fire
- Set
- Harvest
- Death
- Moon
I wanted each to be a pair with 6 months apart and for the solstices and equinoxes to each have an appropriate name
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.
Keep the month names the same but name the 13th “Smarch”.
iniciary, seconduary, ternuary, foursh, fifsh, siksh, septembre, ocrobre, novembre, december, oncember, docember
I’d pull out ‘July’ and ‘August’, move everything else up two spaces and put ‘July’ and ‘August’ at the end.
- Intention
- Ice
- Seed
- Change
- Joy
- Sun
- Moon
- Fire
- Harvest
- Rain
- Despair
- Family
I eally like these names. But Despair needs an alternative name. Think of the poor people whose birthday is “Despair 1st”.
Wind could also work.
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.
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.
Tim.
All of them are Tim.
- Angela
- Pamela
- Sandra
- Rita
- Monica
- Erica
- Tina
- Sandra
- Mary
- Jessica
- You
- Me
Sandra 2: Bega Boogaloo
- Samantha
- Ross
- Gavin
- David
- Dyllon
- Patricia
- Annie
- Thomas
- Tillie
- Siobhan
- Janice
- Francisco
No love for the French Republican Calendar months?
- Pluvose
- Ventose
- Germinal
- Floreal
- Prarial
- Messidor
- Thermidor
- Fructidor
- Vendemiaire
- Brumaire
- Frimaire
- Nivose
People who know their Latin roots might know what these months are named after, but here’s a guide:
- “pluviosus”, meaning “rain”
- “ventosus”, meaning “windy”
- “germen”, meaning “germination” (of a plant)
- “flos”, meaning “flower”; or “floreo”, meaning “blossom” (of a flower)
- “prairie” (field)
- “messis”, meaning “harvest”
- “θερμός”, meaning “hot” in Greek
- “fructus”, meaning “fruit”
- “vindemia”, meaning “vintage” (harvesting of grapes)
- “brume”, meaning “fog” in French
- “frimas”, meaning “frost” in French
- “nivosus”, meaning “snowy”
Today (2026-03-23 UTC) would be the 23rd of Germinal, 2026 CE.
Wait, I thought the French Republican Calendar had 10 months only?
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There would be only one month. It’s called “Year” and has 365 days.
Too bad for people who are monthly paid.
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Morning Star, Sun’s Dawn, First Seed, Rain’s Hand, Second Seed, Midyear, Sun’s Height, Last Seed, Hearthfire, Frostfall, Sun’s Dusk, Evening Star
