Huh… weird

Edit: Pope Gregory XIII invented the Gregorian calendar and skipped those days to account for the actual solar year, which is not 365.25, as the Julian calendar said, but rather 365.2422 days.

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.

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.

So that explains the “Months have either 28, 29, 30, or 31 days.” in that falsehood list.

Because that’s where all the time was spent and now we have daylight savings time to make up the difference

Looks just fine in my proper British calendar.

Now September 1752 is a different story.

They didn’t deserve them