# Google doodle screwup

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/google-doodle-screwup/661548>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [June 21, 2013, 10:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/google-doodle-screwup/661548 "2013-06-21T10:39:21Z")\
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**Author:** ![WhyNot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c77e96/32.png) [@WhyNot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WhyNot)\
**Post date:** [June 24, 2013, 12:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/google-doodle-screwup/661548/41 "2013-06-24T00:09:36Z")

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> [@Cartooniverse](#):
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> You get this glow when you’re enraged. It’s almost…almost…like the glow of a Midsummer’s Solstice Sun ! 😃
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> ( d&r )

I just got home from Pagan Spirit Gathering. Lots of talk of Solstice, no one claiming it was the first day of summer. Joyousness! I \*am \*glowing. It’s the glow of righteousness. Or perhaps sunburn. Ow. 😉

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**Author:** ![Jeff\_Lichtman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jeff_lichtman/32/1531_2.png) [@Jeff\_Lichtman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jeff_Lichtman)\
**Post date:** [June 24, 2013, 6:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/google-doodle-screwup/661548/42 "2013-06-24T06:20:38Z")

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It’s true that what we call the first day of summer is just a matter of tradition and convention. At the same time, though, most people have the idea that summer is the warmest season. This year the vernal equinox happened on March 20, and the summer solstice on June 21. The halfway point between these two is May 5 or 6. Does anyone really think spring ends and summer begins in early May?

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**Author:** ![stui\_magpie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stui_magpie/32/11010_2.png) [@stui\_magpie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stui_magpie)\
**Post date:** [June 24, 2013, 6:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/google-doodle-screwup/661548/43 "2013-06-24T06:38:56Z")

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> [@Leaffan](#):
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> 'Round these parts the June solstice has always been called the first day of summer. This year, in particular, it finally is just now beginning to feel like summer.
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> People in Australia may have a different outlook.

Just a little, we had the winter solstice on June 21 no problems. For us, we consider June 1 to be the first day of Winter though.

Edit, just saw Guanolad got in before me. And I agree, it’s frigging freezing atm.

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