The power of the pope

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• Grail@multiverse.soulism.net ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I don’t like the gregorian calendar because it doesn’t have a year 0.

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• Egonallanon@feddit.uk ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  It does make October 1582 an amusingly broken month on the calendars.

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  • deathmetal27@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Not as bad as the year 46 BC

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• Codpiece@feddit.uk ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  But my name is neither Greg or Ian.

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• rockSlayer@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Yea, and he fucked it up. Making September the 9th month? October the 10th? November the 11th? December for the 12th?

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  • arctanthrope@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    that actually already existed in the Julian calendar, put in place by Julius Caesar. the only change that Gregory made was to eliminate 3 leap days every 400 years to make the calendar year better match the solar year

    also, Caesar didn’t insert July and August into the calendar, he just renamed the months, which were previously called Quintilis and Sextilis, but were still the 7th and 8th months. those already didn’t match up way back then, because they refer to an even older calendar, where the first month was March, because the year was considered to begin on the spring equinox, not the winter solstice

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    • cjoll4@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Caesar wasn’t even the one who renamed those months. The senate named July in Caesar’s honor after his death, and then did the same for August during the reign of Augustus.

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  • TheRealKuni@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    That’s not on Gregory, it was already like that under the Julian calendar.

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    • rockSlayer@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      God damn it Ceasar, you had 1 job

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