In 1873 Japan changed from the Chinese Lunar Calendar to the Western Gregorian calendar during the Meiji Restoration, but kept the Chinese Zodiac.
Meaning a Japanese person born at the beginning of the year (between New Year’s Day of the Gregorian calendar and New Year’s Day of the Chinese Lunar Calendar) will have a different Chinese Zodiac than a Chinese Person.
For example, someone born between January 1st 2025 and January 28th 2025 inclusive would be considered the Year of the Snake in Japan, whereas in the rest of East and Southeast Asia, someone born on those dates would still be the year of the Dragon.
In China and the rest of East and Southeast Asia, the Lunar New Year January 29th 2025 would be the beginning of the year of the snake.
Edit: Living in Japan and dating Japanese people, they really don’t like when you tell them this lol.
Time travel accident. They didn’t realise that the time itself gets travelled into the future. September of 2843 is going to have 42 days.
Huh… weird
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.
This is the final straw with Apple software bugs
EVERYONE* impacted by this, you know your duty -> apple.com/feedback
* yes, even you Bartholomew
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
And no, it does not roll around, it seems to really be BC because my appointments are not listed
You should get an award for doing meticulous and careful research.
here, have my gold for your effort.
Yep!
https://www.britannica.com/story/ten-days-that-vanished-the-switch-to-the-gregorian-calendar
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.
https://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.
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.
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
But it’s arbitrary. It doesn’t need to. Centuries are just 100 years. Start at years ending in one or zero.
it’s arbitrary
Start at […] one or zero.
Coward. My century starts at 54
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
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.
I always thought it was the christian brand version of Roman Saturnalia.
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.
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.
His purpose regarding factualization was a political move by the Romans and the Catholic church, setting the calendar year 1 to the start of the age of Pisces.
And that’s if they had managed to get Jesus’s birth year right, but he was actually born a couple of years BC
Here I was always under the impression that AD was ‘after death’ in the religious world and BC was ‘before christ’. Which would then make the years when the guy was walking around a sort of uncounted void in the timelines I guess.
AD is Anno Domini, “In The Year Of Our Lord” which is why it (is supposed to) start at the Birth of Jesus. The monk did get his dates wrong and Jesus was actually born in like 3~4 AD
Makes sense, and would give some explanation for the lack of a year 0 of it was counted as ‘the first year of’.
Handy then that the more recent secular take of BCE (before current era) makes some of those discrepancies for when an individual was born a moot point.
Small correction 6~4 BC not 3~4 AD
Ah rip i knew i should have looked it up instead of relying on my memory, thanks.
Yo some poor programmer had to manually code this in there
Most developers don’t write their own date handling code; they instead use code that someone else already wrote. Good programming languages have useful date and time libraries.
Right, but the original person who wrote the code everyone uses still had to program it in.
whilst being screamed at by SJ to get it done
This bothers me way more than it really should.
We should pressure them to make a fix for it.
What’s the fix…? o.o
CHANGING TIME ITSELF
So that explains the “Months have either 28, 29, 30, or 31 days.” in that falsehood list.
I had always wondered that
They were lost due to a rounding error.
The best part is that this really is correct, at the heart of it.
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.
patched
lol
Hope you can read Latin to understand the patch notes hahaj
When the precession of the equinoxes kicks in.
I was hungry, sorrry.
I’m pretty sure that’s missing 10 days fam.
Til Fossify Calendar only goes back to 1900
Literally unusable!
The guy responsible for this mess should be stabbed by someone.
I thought this might be a joke about Gregory XIII but no, Greg died of fever so I don’t get the comment at all. Doesn’t appear to be made by a bot, either.
Greg fixed the issue introduced by the last guy who deemed himself worthy of creating a calendar for the western world. He tried his best to get us out of the mess.
Looks just fine in my proper British calendar.
Now September 1752 is a different story.
Because that’s where all the time was spent and now we have daylight savings time to make up the difference
They didn’t deserve them
Something about Agatha Christie.
