Abbreviations of Months of the Year,
Days of the Week, and
Other Abbreviations of Time

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See also:

• Origin of the names of the months from Encyclopedia Mythica.
• Egyptian Calendar: Why 12 months in a year?

Seasons of the Year

(Typically in North America)

See also:

• The Seasons on Earth from Department of Astronomy, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY.
• Earth's Seasons. Seasons are the result of the tilt of the Earth's axis, from Enchanted Learning.
• Why Has Date Changed for Start of Spring? By Joe Rao, Space.com. The first day of spring no longer falls on March 21. Spring season starts one day earlier on March 20 in all time zones in North America. In the years 2008 and 2012, those living in Alaska, Hawaii and the Pacific, Mountain and Central time zones will see spring begin even earlier: on March 19. And in 2016, it will start on March 19 for the entire United States (and most likely for Canada as well).

Abbreviations of Days of the Week

See also:

• Origins of the Days of the Week.
• Symbols for Days of the Week - Historical symbols for the days of the week by D. Glenn Arthur, Jr., Baltimore, MD.
  
• Days of the Week - Index by W.J. Rayment. History of Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday.
• Day of the Week - Find out what day of the week did a certain date fall on, by Stephen C. Phillips, University of Southampton, UK.
• Week from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

Other Abbreviations of Time

See also:

• 12-hour clock from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. "In the United States ... noon is often called 12:00 p.m. and midnight 12:00 a.m., as at the beginning of a day. ... Strictly speaking, 12 A.M. denotes midnight, and 12 P.M. denotes noon, but there is sufficient confusion over these uses to make it advisable to use 12 noon and 12 midnight where clarity is required."
  
• Origin of Year 0 and AD, BC.

Abbreviations of Time References from English Plus+.

Sources:

• Abbreviations of Time References from English Plus+.
  
• "Common Abbreviations." The New Lexicon Webster's Encyclopedic Dictionary of the English Language. Canadian ed. New York: Lexicon, 1988, CA1-8.
  (Above reference out of print. Closest match currently available: Webster's Encyclopedic Unabridged Dictionary of the English Language, 1996 ed.)
   
• Gibaldi, Joseph. MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers. 6th ed. New York: MLA, 2003, 263.