Comment on The lost days

Etterra@discuss.online ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

• sp3tr4l@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Technically correct, but the rounding error was not caused by a modern programmer… it was introduced by Julius Caesar, then patched 1,582 years later by Pope Gregory XIII.

  Setting up the evolution of the western calendar system as a github commit / change log seems like a comic xkcd must have already made.

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  • brbposting@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    patched

    lol

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    • sp3tr4l@lemmy.zip ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Hope you can read Latin to understand the patch notes hahaj

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• Ledivin@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  The best part is that this really is correct, at the heart of it.

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