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[-] BudgetBandit@sh.itjust.works 173 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

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.

[-] sp3tr4l@lemmy.zip 118 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

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.

[-] WolfLink@sh.itjust.works 22 points 19 hours ago

Yo some poor programmer had to manually code this in there

[-] amon@lemmy.world 7 points 18 hours ago

whilst being screamed at by SJ to get it done

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