By KATELYN FINDLEY
Features Editor
Some other countries still use another calendar system.
All countries except a select group use the Gregorian calendar system today. This includes Ethiopia, Iran, Afghanistan, and more have chosen to remain on separate calendar systems.
The first of the year used to start in March.
Before the Julian calendar was implemented, the Roman calendar was the predominant system used.
Julius Caesar calculated this system to be wrong. So he created the Julian calendar. This changed the first day of the year from March 1 to Jan. 1.
George Washington’s birthday was not originally Feb. 22, 1732.
In 1752, when the British king, King George II, put the Gregorian calender into effect in all the British colonies, former President George Washington’s birthday had to be changed to match the timeline of the new calendar. His original birthday was recorded as Feb. 11, 1731.
Right now we are in year 5784 of the Hebrew calendar.
The year began on Sept. 15, 2023 and runs until Oct. 2, 2024.
The calendar is a lunar calendar with the month changing with the new moon. This requires adding an extra month every few years.
The Gregorian calendar will need to change again.
When calculating the Julian and Gregorian calendar, early astrologists did not account for the extra time not used. Twenty-six seconds are not accounted for in the Gregorian calendar. Because of this factor, the time will add together and put the dates off course from the timeline, leaving the world to figure out how to fix this problem again. But NOT for another 3200 years.
