Aurelius@lemmy.world to Today I Learned@lemmy.worldEnglish · edit-29 months agoThe ancient Romans made many attempts to fix the calendar year before landing on 12 months and leap yearswww.bbc.comexternal-linkmessage-square48fedilinkarrow-up1156arrow-down13file-text
arrow-up1153arrow-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-29 months agomessage-square48fedilinkfile-text
minus-squareAda@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up28arrow-down2·9 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-squarelad@programming.devlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·9 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-squareGoldELox@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·9 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-squaredumples@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up2·9 months agoThat’s a great point. Imagine being a Monday birthday
Can you imagine never getting your birthday off?
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
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
That’s a great point. Imagine being a Monday birthday