May 26, 2023
For about a thousand years in ancient Japan, the calendar was divided into 72 microseasons, each lasting about five days. They had names like “Crickets chirp around the door” and “Mist starts to linger.”
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Ten Days That Vanished: The Switch to the Gregorian Calendar
When it comes to calendars, small errors can add up over time. The Julian calendar—the prevalent calendar in the Christian world for the first millennium CE and part of the second millennium—was an improvement over the Roman republican calendar that it replaced, but it was 11 minutes and 14 seconds
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