"The sixth season began in July 2015 and ended on December."

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This comes from a Wikipedia article.

"Up until the fourth season, Martin wrote one episode for each season. In 2022, Martin said that he had been estranged from the show during the production process of the last 4 seasons (starting with season 5). In the early seasons, Martin wrote and read scripts, consulted on casting decisions and visited sets. Over time, however, as he stepped back to focus on his long-delayed next “Thrones” novel, "The Winds of Winter". Following the gargantuan success of the fourth season, HBO ordered the fifth season on April 8, 2014, (together with the sixth season), which began filming in July 2014. The season primarily adapts the storylines from A Feast for Crows and A Dance with Dragons, also with original content not found in Martin's novels. This season set a Guinness World Record for winning the highest number of Emmy Awards for a series in a single season and year, winning 12 out of 24 nominations, including Outstanding Drama Series.

With a budget over $100 million for the whole season, filming for the sixth season began in July 2015 and ended on December. The season filmed in five different countries: Northern Ireland, Spain, Croatia, Iceland, and Canada. This season saw the overall plot of the show diverging from the source material. Some of the season's storyline is derived from content not yet published in Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire series, although a significant amount of material from A Feast for Crows, A Dance with Dragons and the upcoming sixth novel The Winds of Winter, which Martin previously outlined to showrunners David Benioff and D.B. Weiss, was used. The season was largely met with positive reviews. The "Battle of the Bastards" episode received immense critical acclaim, with many calling it one of the best television episodes of all time. U.S. viewership rose compared to the previous season, and by approximately 13 percent over its course, from 7.9 million to 8.9 million by the finale. The season won 12 of the 23 Emmy Awards for which it was nominated."

I'm not sure why on, not in, is used here. I'm familiar with using in with months, but not on.

My guess is that in refers to an unspecified day somewhere between the first and the thirty-first day of December, and on treats December as a point, a whole, perhaps referring to its beginning as the point in time that marks the end of filming for the sixth season, in which case "(...) filming for the sixth season (...) ended on December" would mean the same as "(...) filming for the sixth season (...) ended when December began".

Does that make sense? Or perhaps it's just a typo and I'm needlessly trying to analyze it.
 
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So there's no chance it was intended; just an error.
 

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So there's no chance it was intended; just an error.
Why are you simply telling us what you've been told in the responses? There's no need to repeat our answers back at us. Simply click "Like" and/or "Thank" on those responses to indicate that you understand them.
 

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That’s right.

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