[codeulike]

Unless you're in the UK in which case it was the 15th March and you've already done it (or already missed it)

[nip]

And if you’re French, don’t worry, you didn’t miss it.

It’s the 31st of May

[user_7832]

Or you're in any timezone significantly ahead of the US (so like over 40% of the world's population). It's already 11.35pm here in India, and most moms (and reasonable adults) are already asleep. China/SE Asia/Jp etc are even further ahead.

Better luck next year... I guess?

[pluc]

Yeah I learned that today! I wonder what's the reason behind the difference.

[nickt]

In the UK (and a few other places) it’s “Mothering Sunday”, the day you honour the church where you were baptised, or your mother church.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mothering_Sunday

[pluc]

Well that just seems like a completely different thing that share a few letters

[codeulike]

I'm in the UK and I've never heard of that definition of it (being to do with churches), maybe thats a very ancient definiton

[disgruntledphd2]

That's how the date is determined, it's the third Sunday of Lent, "mothering sunday". Hence why the date changes every year (as the dates of Lent move because Easter Sunday is the first Sunday after the first full moon after the Equinox).

[Biganon]

Add a few more letters and you get my favorite day of the year

[pmg101]

Fourth Sunday in Lent or something, very easy to forget it!

[beardyw]

Yes, it pre-dates the gift card (and gift) industry. I seem to recall being told it was to allow servants to go home to see their mothers. See how vaguely I framed that.

[pmg101]

Nothing to do with mothers, wasn't it something to do with visiting your "mother church", the church where you were baptised?

[therepanic]

If you are Russian, then you celebrated this in November.

[chatmasta]

If you’re American living in the UK you get double the number of weekends freaking out thinking you missed it. Those signs go up in February…