Aurelius@lemmy.world to Today I Learned@lemmy.worldEnglish · edit-28 months agoThe ancient Romans made many attempts to fix the calendar year before landing on 12 months and leap yearswww.bbc.comexternal-linkmessage-square49fedilinkarrow-up1176arrow-down13file-textcross-posted to: hackernews@lemmy.smeargle.fans
arrow-up1173arrow-down1external-linkThe ancient Romans made many attempts to fix the calendar year before landing on 12 months and leap yearswww.bbc.comAurelius@lemmy.world to Today I Learned@lemmy.worldEnglish · edit-28 months agomessage-square49fedilinkfile-textcross-posted to: hackernews@lemmy.smeargle.fans
minus-squareAda@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up37arrow-down2·8 months ago So every year every day lands on the same day of the week and an extra da Can you imagine never getting your birthday off?
minus-squareGoldELox@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9·8 months agowow, until becoming attached to the current calander in my youth i had always believed this would be more efficient, you really gave me a great reason for the Gregorian
minus-squarelad@programming.devlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·8 months agoChildren may have the closest weekend assigned as birth date Like in East Asia where people technically change their age all at the same date: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_Asian_age_reckoning
minus-squaredumples@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up2·8 months agoThat’s a great point. Imagine being a Monday birthday
Can you imagine never getting your birthday off?
wow, until becoming attached to the current calander in my youth i had always believed this would be more efficient, you really gave me a great reason for the Gregorian
Children may have the closest weekend assigned as birth date
Like in East Asia where people technically change their age all at the same date: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_Asian_age_reckoning
That’s a great point. Imagine being a Monday birthday