Unlike the rest of the world, Australia marks its change of seasons by the first of the month (Dec, Mar, Jun, Sep) instead of the solstices and equinoxes which is the more globally common practice
Why? Because a lazy fucking red coat officer gave up trying to calculate when the solstices and equinoxes were (the time when red coats swapped out their summer/winter unifroms) and went, 'fuck it, first of the month'
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