Why Julius Caesar's Year of Confusion was the longest year in history
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To tame a hopelessly disorganised Roman calendar, Julius Caesar added months, took them away, and invented the leap year.

I edited the title because my grammar is terrible

  • lad@programming.devEnglish
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    8 months ago

    It looks like the Iranian calendar would have each year of a different length, since

    The Iranian New Year begins at the midnight nearest to the instant of the northern spring equinox, as determined by astronomic calculations for the meridian (52.5°E)

    This would make this kind of calendar extremely complicated to handle especially when not using computers