To correct the mismatch of the Julian calendar, the Gregorian calendar introduced a new rule: a year is considered a leap year only if it is divisible by 4, except if it ends in “00″, in which ...

The original Roman calendar divided the year from March to December into 10 months of either 29 or 31 days, based on lunar ...

The Julian calendar was 0.0078 days (11 minutes and ... isn’t perfect or there would be no need for leap year. But it was a big improvement, reducing drift to mere seconds.

Feb. 29 is more than just an extra day we have once every four years. There is some science behind it. Here's how leap days ...

In 1752, from Sept. 3rd to 13th, people witnessed a unique historical event. Eleven days were cut from the calendar and deleted forever.

Teymour Taj celebrates the beginning of 2025 by exploring the weird and wonderful history of calendars As 2025 rolled in, ...

Despite previous reforms, which included instituting a complex system of periodic adjustments (analogous to leap ... of the new year long before Caesar rose to power, his Julian calendar, as ...

February, or as the Romans called it, Februarius is upon us. Depending on whether a groundhog sees his shadow Sunday, we either have six more weeks of winter, or we don’t. The month, I have always ...