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PotomacBob ๐Ÿšซ

It is my understanding of a fiscal year that it is named based on when it ends, not when it starts.
Thus a fiscal year the begins on October 1, 2023, is named fiscal year 2024.
Does that same logic apply to seasons? Is the season that begins December 1, 2023 (assuming you follow the naming conventions of the National Weather Service) or on the Winter Solstice of 2023 (assuming you follow the naming conventions of most calendar makers) - is that the winter of 2024 because it ENDS in that calendar year?

Dominions Son ๐Ÿšซ
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@PotomacBob

Is the season that begins December 1, 2023 (assuming you follow the naming conventions of the National Weather Service) or on the Winter Solstice of 2023 (assuming you follow the naming conventions of most calendar makers) - is that the winter of 2024 because it ENDS in that calendar year?

The convention of the US National Weather Service is to use both years for the winter season (as it's the only season that straddles years).

So you have winter 2022-23 Winter 2022-23 Outlook

And school years (September-June) follow the same dual year naming.

Here is the 23/24 calendar for my local public school district: 2023-2024 SCHOOL YEAR GENERAL INSTRUCTIONAL CALENDAR

Mushroom ๐Ÿšซ

@PotomacBob

Thus a fiscal year the begins on October 1, 2023, is named fiscal year 2024.
Does that same logic apply to seasons? Is the season that begins December 1, 2023

It is not quite that simple. The example you are showing is the Fiscal Year of the US Federal Government, but not everybody follows that. Most states work from July to June (because July is traditionally the first full month with no school and that is commonly one of their largest expenditures). Most businesses work from January through December as that is when taxes are computed.

The US Government also used to use the July through June model, but moved to October in 1976. The move was for many reasons, including the end of a budget control act that year, as well as to give Congress more time to hash out the budget for the next year.

But yes, it is named after the year in which most of it occurs, and not when it starts. And most systems use that tradition. The PGA (golf) runs from September through August, but as most of the season in play right now happens in 2023 so it is known as the 2023 season, even though it started in 2022. The NBA follows the same naming scheme as does the NHL and all other sporting leagues that I am aware of.

However, Baseball does not as the entire season is within a single year. Football only has finals in another year, so the last Superbowl was the end of the 2022 season, even thought it ended in 2023.

For the weather season, I suspect it is tied to both because the seasons of hurricanes in the Atlantic and Pacific as well as typhoons in the Indian Ocean as well as other storm cycles often straddle the traditional year endings with many of them overlapping.

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Dicrostonyx ๐Ÿšซ

@Mushroom

Worth noting that there are also a lot of smaller businesses that will use an April - March fiscal year on the theory that it lines up better with taxes. In Canada we also sometimes see May - April since tax day is 30 April instead of mid-month.

As an aside I'll also mention that Canadian universities are mostly on the term system rather than the semester system. The typical Calendar year is September - April with some classes over summer, but the terms have dates consistent with when they begin.

So, for the 2023 - 2024 calendar year, the terms will be: Fall 2023 (Sep - Dec), Winter 2024 (Jan - Apr), Spring 2024 (May - Jun), and Summer 2024 (Jul - Aug).

Some Canadian universities simplify this, however, to a three term system: Fall 2023 term (Sep - Dec), Spring 2024 term (Jan - Apr), and Summer 2024 session (May - Aug).

In either case, the Spring and Summer 2024 terms are part of the 2023 academic year.

richardshagrin ๐Ÿšซ

@PotomacBob

It is 2023. More precisely June 18th, fathers day.

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