[NYer]

Secular view, ping!

[GreyFriar]

A good history lesson.

I remember about the change in the calendar story, imperfectly, from childhood when my 4th grade teacher told about Great Britain making the change after George Washington was born, thus he had “two” birthdays and we celebrate the 2nd Gregorian Calendar one on Feb 22.

[paterfamilias]

great article - thanks for posting

[scrabblehack]

This fellow says the standard should be the Vernal Equinox Year rather than the Solar Year:

http://www.hermetic.ch/cal_stud/cassidy/howlong.htm

The Gregorian Calendar gains a day on the Vernal Equinox every 6700 years, although it gains a day on the Solar Year every 3225 years.

One possible fix for either standard would be to not observe A.D. 4000 as a leap year; this adjustment could wait a few thousand years for the Vernal Equinox Year.

[wagglebee]

Very interesting, thanks for posting.

[MattinNJ]

Excellent article. Thanks!

[Phinneous]

Ping to contrast to your calendar, Segnor Of Chianti...

[wbarmy]

I kind of focused on the “not wanting Easter on a Jewish religious holiday” The whole idea of the thing is a permanent Passover. It is our Passover just as much as it was the Jews Passover.

I don’t care about the calendar, but I definitely want the Blood on my lintel.

[Balding_Eagle]

BTTT Calendar

[Moltke]

The days were still there, they were just called something else. No singularity occurred.

[boatbums]

Just curious if Pope Gregory’s papal bull was considered “infallible”?

[zeugma]

Great article.

I’ve always been interested in time and calendars. We sure seem to go through a lot of trouble to keep things in sync.