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Wonderling
Feb 5, 2014, 02:50 PM
Guess it's a silly question, but really I don't know.
Is today's calendar the Roman or Gregorian?

tickle
Feb 5, 2014, 02:53 PM
Present day calendar is gregorian, solar based

ma0641
Feb 5, 2014, 03:15 PM
Pope Gregory started the "Gregorian" calendar in 1582 or so. The solar year is actually 365 and 1/4 days long and therefore we add 1 day in a leap year to make it up.

ebaines
Feb 5, 2014, 05:02 PM
Actually the Gregorian calendar added the feature of skipping leap years in years that are divisible by 100 but not divisible by 400. Hence the average numbers of days/year in the Gregorian calendar is 365.2425 days. The older Julian calendar had leap years every 4 years, for an average of 365.25 days/year. As a consequence the Julian calendar fell behind "solar time" by 12 days over 1500 years.

Fr_Chuck
Feb 5, 2014, 09:56 PM
I use Chinese (LOL) happy Chinese New Year

ebaines
Feb 6, 2014, 06:32 AM
Yes Fr_Chuck- happy year of the horse!

Wonderling
Feb 6, 2014, 01:31 PM
Thanks all! Got it! :D
@Fr_Chuck... Gung hei fat choi!