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		foobarbazetc on April 14, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Why we’re switching to calendar versioning Just so you know, season based names make no sense since the Southern Hemisphere exists. Also there’s no such thing as Fall in a lot of places.

ClassyJacket on April 14, 2019 [–]

As an Australian, "Coming Summer 2019" may as well just say "Coming 2019".

I don't care to research the country of the developer and then the dates that are considered summer in that country just because they were so ignorant they used a season as a timeframe.

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