On calling out Calendars

Before there was the air raid siren of an Apple alarm tone, there were roosters to wake us up in the morning, by shouting, or “calling out” the break of dawn. As primates usually do, we copied this practice of calling out the time.⁣⁣You see, the Priests during the Roman times, used to “call out” or “declare” every new moon from the Roman Capitol. This was so the people could be made aware of the number of days till the “nones” (a Christian Feast), and was called the “calares” (derived from the PIE root “kale-”). ⁣⁣
⁣⁣
This was also relevant as these “calares” reminded people of the number of days left before they had to clear their debts and fill up the account book, called the “calendarium”.⁣⁣
⁣⁣

A page out of the Roman "Calendar" etched with days of religious importance.

These “calares”, gave rise to “calendars”. So, a calendar is literally something that is an “account book” (of number of days). Just to show they could make life more miserable for everyone, the Roman Catholic priests went ahead and invented pressing deadlines.⁣⁣
⁣⁣
Also, full moon reminds me, Beware of the Ides of March.⁣⁣