Tag: Gregorian calendar
The messy history of our modern, Western calendar
Image: Wikimedia Commons
For something that’s meant to lend order to our lives, the modern Western calendar has a messy history. The mess, in part, comes...
How a seasonal snarl-up in the mid-1500s gave us our strange rules for leap years
Really, except if you are born on February 29th, it means
little . . . but how did it come about? Image: Shuttlecock
Did you...