Comment on The lost days

BudgetBandit@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• sp3tr4l@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Yep!

  britannica.com/…/ten-days-that-vanished-the-switc…

  This is not some kind of software bug, it actually reflects how the real, western calendar system was intentionally designed.

  Don’t let modern doomsday cults/prophets know about it though, wouldn’t want to further confuse their Bible Math.

  Other quirks of our calendar system:

  There is no year 0.

  en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Year_zero

  Goes straight from 1 BC to 1 AD.

  This is why the new millenium actually began in 2001, not 2000.

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  • WolfLink@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Yo some poor programmer had to manually code this in there

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    • amon@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      whilst being screamed at by SJ to get it done

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    • dan@upvote.au ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Most developers don’t write their own date handling code; they instead use code that someone else already wrote.

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      • BeardedGingerWonder@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Right, but the original person who wrote the code everyone uses still had to program it in.

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  • themoonisacheese@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Also, Jesus probably wasn’t born in 1AD. as a matter of fact is 1AD the year after Christmas where Jesus was born (so he was born in 1BC) or was Jesus not born for the vast majority of 1AD until a week before the end of year?

    Crazy what assimilating pagan holidays will do to a religion

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    • eRac@lemmings.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Jesus was born in the spring, not the winter. Christmas is an adaptation of northern winter festivities and they slapped a Christian justification on it.

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      • froh42@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        I always thought it was the christian brand version of Roman Saturnalia.

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    • Sineljora@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Jesus was never real and was not recorded by dozens of scribes that were in the place at the same time (one famous example was debunked hundreds of years ago). He’s a sun-god astrological myth, like Horus and others before and they all share similar attributes.

      His purpose was to signal the start of the age of Pisces (two fish), and the winter solstice will see the sun rise (after 3 days of apparent stagnation) in the Aquarius constellation in 2150 or so. His resurrection is celebrated at Spring equinox, or Easter, when the sun finally overpowers the darkness.

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    • MBM@lemmings.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      And that’s if they had managed to get Jesus’s birth year right, but he was actually born a couple of years BC

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  • TempermentalAnomaly@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Can’t believe we skipped both 0 BC and 0 AD.

    In all seriousness, we can define the millennium to start on 2000 and work from there. We already do this with decades and centuries.

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    • InFerNo@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Just happened to help my 9yo with his homework and they’re learning that centuries are defined as starting at year 1 and ending with a 0.

      101 200

      1401 1500

      Etc

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      • TempermentalAnomaly@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        But it’s arbitrary. It doesn’t need to. Centuries are just 100 years. Start at years ending in one or zero.

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• BudgetBandit@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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  Okay if you scroll enough, it goes from year 2 to 1 to 2 and starts getting higher. I went to 1582 again and this seems to be correct

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  • BudgetBandit@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    And no, it does not roll around, it seems to really be BC because my appointments are not listed

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    • Sibbo@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      You should get an award for doing meticulous and careful research.

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      • AbsolutelyNotAVelociraptor@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        @BudgetBandit@sh.itjust.works

        here, have my gold for your effort.Lemmy gold

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    • wolfpack86@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      And you have a leap year in a non even year

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• cannedtuna@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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  If you scroll back to August and September of the same year they don’t show up correctly either. Wonder if October is throwing them off.

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  • brbposting@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    This is the final straw with Apple software bugs

    EVERYONE* impacted by this, you know your duty -> apple.com/feedback

    * yes, even you Bartholomew

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    • raccoon@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

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• Gork@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  This bothers me way more than it really should.

  We should pressure them to make a fix for it.

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  • Mesophar@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    What’s the fix…? o.o

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    • Passerby6497@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      CHANGING TIME ITSELF

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