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Why Was January 20 Chosen?

When I was growing up in the Washington, DC area, the apocryphal explanation for January 20 as being the day of a president's inauguration was that it was most likely to be in the middle of the "January Thaw." However, the National Weather Service page for January doesn't really show anything really interesting about that day in the period 1981-2010. My research skills aren't sufficient to learn more about this.

Bwanameister (talk) 19:17, 7 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

That's a good question and I at first thought it would be in the article, and of course it wasn't. A quick google search didn't turn up much that was definitive, other than the improvements in technology made it obvious that the original 4 month delay from elections to inauguration was too long. This page offered the idea that the House and Senate both proposed different dates and January 20th was the compromise in the middle. That would be where the answer would have to come from - minutes of the deliberations when this amendment was being created. Ravensfire (talk) 23:27, 7 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Sic

The use twice of "[sic]" after the abbreviation "3d" suggests that 3d is a misspelling. It's not common today, but that doesn't make it erroneous. I'm taking the "sic"s out. Revert and discuss if you disagree. Dgndenver (talk) 21:25, 14 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

I agree. SMP0328. (talk) 21:27, 14 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

FYI Unknown-Tree, I undid your edit as per this discussion. If you did read this and there's a different reason why you brought the sic back, feel free to add to this discussion Rdelfin (talk) 23:10, 20 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Place and Time

I do not see that Amendment XX stipulates a place and/or time zone that "noon on the 20th day of January" applies do. Does federal law clarify it as EST? Should the article reflect this? Count Robert of Paris (talk) 13:05, 20 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]