The ancient Romans made many attempts to fix the calendar year before landing on 12 months and leap years - eviltoast
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.

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  • Gork@lemm.eeEnglish
    71·
    8 months ago

    Ukraine recently moved it back though to align with the Western New Year celebrations if I recall correctly. More of a “fuck Russia we’re gonna do our own thing” cultural move.

    • rockerface 🇺🇦@lemm.eeEnglish
      8·
      8 months ago

      That’s not what we moved. We moved Christian holidays 2 weeks back to align with Gregorian calendar. Because the Orthodox Christians would count it by Julian Calendar (with Christmas on 7th January). But yeah, we did do that to be closer to European countries than to Russia