6mo ago

The lost days

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I was hungry, sorrry.
Huh… weird
Edit: Pope Gregory XIII invented the Gregorian calendar and skipped those days to account for the actual solar year, which is not 365.25, as the Julian calendar said, but rather 365.2422 days.
- Yep!
  https://www.britannica.com/story/ten-days-that-vanished-the-switch-to-the-gregorian-calendar
  This is not some kind of software bug, it actually reflects how the real, western calendar system was intentionally designed.
  Don't let modern doomsday cults/prophets know about it though, wouldn't want to further confuse their Bible Math.
  Other quirks of our calendar system:
  There is no year 0.
  https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Year_zero
  Goes straight from 1 BC to 1 AD.
  This is why the new millenium actually began in 2001, not 2000.
  The Jehovah's Witnesses rather notoriously screwed up their earlier doomsdate due to not realizing this, I'm fairly sure a lot of other sects that popped up in the 1800s did as well.
  
  Yo some poor programmer had to manually code this in there
  
  Can't believe we skipped both 0 BC and 0 AD.
  In all seriousness, we can define the millennium to start on 2000 and work from there. We already do this with decades and centuries.
  
  Also, Jesus probably wasn't born in 1AD. as a matter of fact is 1AD the year after Christmas where Jesus was born (so he was born in 1BC) or was Jesus not born for the vast majority of 1AD until a week before the end of year?
  Crazy what assimilating pagan holidays will do to a religion
- Okay if you scroll enough, it goes from year 2 to 1 to 2 and starts getting higher. I went to 1582 again and this seems to be correct
  
  And no, it does not roll around, it seems to really be BC because my appointments are not listed
The guy responsible for this mess should be stabbed by someone.
Time travel accident. They didn't realise that the time itself gets travelled into the future. September of 2843 is going to have 42 days.
They were lost due to a rounding error.
- Technically correct, but the rounding error was not caused by a modern programmer... it was introduced by Julius Caesar, then patched 1,582 years later by Pope Gregory XIII.
  Setting up the evolution of the western calendar system as a github commit / change log seems like a comic xkcd must have already made.

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