>>40464930ackshually
Not headcanon. I went full autismo on the history of calendars once to answer that very question. Before day based calendars, there were lunar calendars.
Months are literally derived from Moonths, which are about 28 days.
In the times of lunar calendars, there often weren't any formal tracking systems. "Years" were generally defined as winters. Bob died 4 winters ago. That's what the year is, which is why many systems attached the new year to that spot when they began tracking it. The Christmas/New Years holiday season always existed as Winter Solstice and the end of Winter. The "Magic" wiccan calendar is where we get Yule at that time of year also, another system that used "moons ago" to mean moon cycles (28 days) ago.
"Many moons ago" is many months ago, in all lunar systems.
I don't remember all the names exactly, but this was pertaining to the medieval pre-history era g4 would've been considered, and in general most of those wizardy fantasy settings. I think it was the Germanic calendar.
in essence, pony dates are these lunar systems.
>lunar / solar>winters = years>moons = months>>40465492excellent point, but also not.
winter doesn't give a shit about days or nights (ask the groundhog like everyone else)
new years before years was the first moon cycle after the solstice or winter or whatever their landmark moment was.
"Happy New Moon" means happy first of the new month, which in this case would be the first one of normal living time between winters/solstices/etc.
They didn't pull "moons ago" out of their ass. It's an existing system.
Everyone point at this man and laugh
>>40465567I'm pretty sure Izzy was just saying the pony equivalent of "once in a blue moon"
