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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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themoonisacheese@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    I always thought it was the christian brand version of Roman Saturnalia.
    
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    RestrictedAccount@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    When they were still being persecuted by the Romans for their religion, they held Christmas during Saturnalia to blend in.
    
    Also, I’m pretty sure I remember seeing that Tolkien had Frodo destroy the ring on the day believed to be the birth of Christ.
    
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- Sineljora@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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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WolfLink@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Yo some poor programmer had to manually code this in there

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- amon@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  whilst being screamed at by SJ to get it done
  
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- dan@upvote.au ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    Right, but the original person who wrote the code everyone uses still had to program it in.
    
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    dan@upvote.au ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    True, but the common libraries for date/time handling are widely used and heavily tested.
    
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    aBundleOfFerrets@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    No such thing
    
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TempermentalAnomaly@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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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    Worx@lemmynsfw.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    
    it’s arbitrary
    
    Start at […] one or zero.
    
    Coward. My century starts at 54
    
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