@s1m0n4@WTL Ides are an ancient Roman calendaring convention, mid-month-ish. Nobody would really know this, except...
The "Ides of March" are famous for being the day that Julius Caesar was assassinated. Shakespeare's Julius Caesar has a famous quote from the soothsayer to Caesar warning him to "beware the Ides of March", a quote which was hammered into my head in my high school lit class. I reflexively say it now.