It's not winter in Australia but the sale is still on!

uh so ?
the promo still runs for 24 hours and 53 minutes

It's actually not winter anywhere in the world. It starts and ends in fall or spring, depending on your hemisphere, or during whatever equatorial people call their everyday existence (everywhere I've been had a "wet" and "dry" season.)

That's because GOG.com is based in Europe (where, incidentally, it also isn't winter yet).

its just the fall sale 2

Really?

In school in Ireland we were always thought winter was November, December and January. Although these days it seems to be December, January and February.

When would you consider Winter to start? (I'm genuinely curious as this seems to vary a lot, which I never really realised)

I always considered it more of a "Holiday Sale". This thread proves the world is too damn big to pin down on one season for everyone. :P

As far as myself, it didn't snow yesterday so I'm going to go ahead and call that summer. Ah yes, December 13th 2014; what a wonderful summer it was! :D

uh 21 december ?

thats the usual start of winter in so far i know

http://www.almanac.com/content/first-day-seasons

hint numero uno

But the Solstice is Midwinter's Night. Like the Summer Solstice is Midsummer's Night.

And the Equinox's are half way through Spring and Autumn.

But clearly this is not a view point shared by many...

"Oh dear I've gone cross-eyed."

From wikipedia:
"These dates are somewhat later than those used to define the beginning and end of the meteorological winter – usually considered to span the entirety of December, January, and February in the Northern Hemisphere and June, July, and August in the Southern.[6]

Astronomically, the winter solstice, being the day of the year which has fewest hours of daylight, ought to be the middle of the season ..."

"Winter is often defined by meteorologists to be the three calendar months with the lowest average temperatures. This corresponds to the months of December, January and February in the Northern Hemisphere, and June, July and August in the Southern Hemisphere"

I have never heard of anyone defining winter as starting from the shortest day of the year until people on RPS started complaining about it. It's always been the three months Dec-Feb. Except in Australia.

Quoting from a bit lower So it does appear that seasons are subjective, similar to Daytime Saving Time ;)

21 december it is then
nothing new there

and this "winter" is the weakest in years so far