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[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

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.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 hours ago

Looks just fine in my proper British calendar.

Now September 1752 is a different story.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 7 hours ago

I was hungry, sorrry.

[–] [email protected] 150 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago) (4 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 99 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago) (4 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

Yo some poor programmer had to manually code this in there

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 hours ago

whilst being screamed at by SJ to get it done

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Just happened to help my 9yo with his homework and they're learning that centuries are defined as starting at year 1 and ending with a 0.

101 200

1401 1500

Etc

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago

But it's arbitrary. It doesn't need to. Centuries are just 100 years. Start at years ending in one or zero.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 11 hours ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)

Jesus was never real and was not recorded by dozens of scribes that were in the place at the same time (one famous example was debunked hundreds of years ago). He’s a sun-god astrological myth, like Horus and others before and they all share similar attributes.

His purpose was to signal the start of the age of Pisces (two fish), and the winter solstice will see the sun rise (after 3 days of apparent stagnation) in the Aquarius constellation in 2150 or so. His resurrection is celebrated at Spring equinox, or Easter, when the sun finally overpowers the darkness.

His purpose regarding factualization was a political move by the Romans and the Catholic church, setting the calendar year 1 to the start of the age of Pisces.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 8 hours ago

Jesus was born in the spring, not the winter. Christmas is an adaptation of northern winter festivities and they slapped a Christian justification on it.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

Here I was always under the impression that AD was 'after death' in the religious world and BC was 'before christ'. Which would then make the years when the guy was walking around a sort of uncounted void in the timelines I guess.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 9 hours ago (2 children)

AD is Anno Domini, "In The Year Of Our Lord" which is why it (is supposed to) start at the Birth of Jesus. The monk did get his dates wrong and Jesus was actually born in like 3~4 AD

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 hours ago

Small correction 6~4 BC not 3~4 AD

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 hours ago

Makes sense, and would give some explanation for the lack of a year 0 of it was counted as 'the first year of'.

Handy then that the more recent secular take of BCE (before current era) makes some of those discrepancies for when an individual was born a moot point.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

If you scroll back to August and September of the same year they don’t show up correctly either. Wonder if October is throwing them off.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 8 hours ago

This is the final straw with Apple software bugs

EVERYONE* impacted by this, you know your duty -> apple.com/feedback

* yes, even you Bartholomew

[–] [email protected] 16 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 20 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

And no, it does not roll around, it seems to really be BC because my appointments are not listed

[–] [email protected] 16 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

You should get an award for doing meticulous and careful research.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 9 hours ago

@[email protected]

here, have my gold for your effort.Lemmy gold

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

This bothers me way more than it really should.

We should pressure them to make a fix for it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 hours ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 hours ago

CHANGING TIME ITSELF

[–] [email protected] 17 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

So that explains the "Months have either 28, 29, 30, or 31 days." in that falsehood list.

[–] tyler 2 points 8 hours ago

I had always wondered that

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 hours ago

Because that's where all the time was spent and now we have daylight savings time to make up the difference

[–] [email protected] 16 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago)

In 1873 Japan changed from the Chinese Lunar Calendar to the Western Gregorian calendar during the Meiji Restoration, but kept the Chinese Zodiac.

Meaning a Japanese person born at the beginning of the year (between New Year's Day of the Gregorian calendar and New Year's Day of the Chinese Lunar Calendar) will have a different Chinese Zodiac than a Chinese Person.

For example, someone born between January 1st 2025 and January 28th 2025 inclusive would be considered the Year of the Snake in Japan, whereas in the rest of East and Southeast Asia, someone born on those dates would still be the year of the Dragon.

In China and the rest of East and Southeast Asia, the Lunar New Year January 29th 2025 would be the beginning of the year of the snake.

Edit: Living in Japan and dating Japanese people, they really don't like when you tell them this lol.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Til Fossify Calendar only goes back to 1900

[–] [email protected] 34 points 11 hours ago

Literally unusable!

[–] [email protected] 18 points 11 hours ago (2 children)

They were lost due to a rounding error.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 hours ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 hours ago

Hope you can read Latin to understand the patch notes hahaj

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 hours ago

The best part is that this really is correct, at the heart of it.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 11 hours ago

When the precession of the equinoxes kicks in.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 hours ago

Something about Agatha Christie.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 hours ago

They didn’t deserve them