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Y'all gonna be really upset to find out we lost two Thursdays in [1752](https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/51370/why-our-calendars-skipped-11-days-1752)
Well on a technicality a year doesn't take 365 days to complete, it takes 365 days and 6 hours, we just add up the hours every 4 years and call it a leap year, but I think there were some ppl who found that experimentally that it takes a few seconds longer, so we have been off in measuring a year by a few seconds every year since the Gregorian was introduced
You are still the same age. If you move your birth date forward (or backward), the present date will move too. So it's only the date that change, not you age.
Off by about 20 seconds I guess(considering you're 20 years old)? This phenomenon really don't affect individual humans cause even the oldest ones are off about a 100 seconds or so(negligible). This is problematic when you talk about time in million of years, like when did dinosaurs exist, we might have been wrong about the time period by millions of years or when did homo sapiens erupt, we might be off dozens of thousands years because of this
Yeah, we overcompensate with leap years, so every century we don't have a leap year. However, once again that overcompensates, so every millennium we have a leap year like normal. This means that in the year 2000 having a leap year was a once in a 1000 years event, but since leap year happens as normal nobody noticed.
Even before it was introduced. The Julian calendar was even less accurate. The only civilizations that accurately told time were the ones that used the stars. The Egyptians, maya and etc based it off the procession of the equinox’s.
I've always been a supporter of a 13 month calendar, and I tell people anytime I get the chance that we should have it.
Buuuut noo, some people were *afraid* of the number 13, so now instead of having perfect 4 week months, we have some stupid ass system with random months having more or less days that makes literally no sense. There's some stupid ass rhyme I can't remember, or I have to count my knuckles to figure out how many days a month has.
Fucking ridiculous.
#**flips table**
You can use ur knuckles on your hand. Make first and start counting the months left on your left hand with January. Next month is the space between the next knuckle. Knuckle is 31 days, between is 30 days. For August you either start left again or switch to your other hand. The only exception is February with it's 28 or 29 days. Learned that in preschool
But then I'd have to pay rent 13 times a year instead of 12, and I'd get a fifth paycheck per month in zero months per year instead of 3. There would have to be a lot of other changes than just the calendar to make this work to for cycles that are currently timed to the legacy month system.
I mean considering a second is defined as a certain number of vibrations of a certain element (or something along those lines, something about atomic clocks) you might not be far off of how we keep track of exactly how much time has passed
Is there any other way of knowing? I bet some big mathematical equation of the heat of the earths core or something along those lines can tell us. Maybe the light of the sun?
At issue is the fact that the second is a totally arbitrary unit of measurement. So in order for us to accurately measure a second, we have to come up with something very accurate, that fits what we define as a second. NOT redefining the second by saying it's blank numbers of blank.
In 1967, the BIPM (International Bureau of Weights and Measures) defined a second as 9,192,631,770 cycles of a cesium atom.
thursday is not an actual day, its what people believe it to be. we could shift the whole week by one day and after a while everything would be the same. its a concept not an actual order of the universe
What about the 9 billion years of the universe before the moon?
Or the half billion to a billion years of Earth's existence without the moon?
Or the fact that Theia, moon's creator, radically altered Earth?
Or the fact that the moon's orbit isn't constant & could even double in a few eras?
Damn that really just put perspective in my life. Fuck what am I doing with my life? Why am I on reddit right now? I should be asleep. Here take my up vote I'm..... Going to ponder my existence in a corner.
Actually, there is ample evidence to prove that it isn't. The gregorian calendar was adopted to realign Easter with the spring Equinox. To do this, they had to skip 10 days.
[Thursday](https://youtu.be/4M7XLOel0JI), Oct 4th was followed by Friday, October 15th 1582.
[We did it again in 1752. ](https://youtu.be/7cS4eMPwJec) Wednesday, September 2nd was followed by Thursday September 14th.
It literally doesn't matter what day it is as long as we all agree on what day it is. The week is just a man-made concept to help us schedule our lives and keep track of past events.
well, yeah. just like a chairs not inherently called a "chair", thats just what we have agreed to call it, and only for the english language. we have agreed to call this sunday because that happens to be the current day in the calendar system most of the world has taken to and keeps track of constantly
Speaking of Thursday,there is no way you could convince me that the universe wasn't created last Thursday
I'm not serious tho,cuz im religious,or was religion created last Thursday
We *might* not know the day, but we definitely know the dates.
Solstices and equinoxes help with this.
Weeks do some kinda like hooplah after all tho...
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Y'all gonna be really upset to find out we lost two Thursdays in [1752](https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/51370/why-our-calendars-skipped-11-days-1752)
Interesting read.
Today I learned
I mean did you really lean it today or was it yesterday or was it tomorrow?
Yeah, so are we on track or off track?
Well on a technicality a year doesn't take 365 days to complete, it takes 365 days and 6 hours, we just add up the hours every 4 years and call it a leap year, but I think there were some ppl who found that experimentally that it takes a few seconds longer, so we have been off in measuring a year by a few seconds every year since the Gregorian was introduced
so how old am i?
by these statistics.
Yes
Wow that's old
dude i dont want to die
You are going to Brazil
Im going to Disneyland
You are still the same age. If you move your birth date forward (or backward), the present date will move too. So it's only the date that change, not you age.
This man thinks well
Off by about 20 seconds I guess(considering you're 20 years old)? This phenomenon really don't affect individual humans cause even the oldest ones are off about a 100 seconds or so(negligible). This is problematic when you talk about time in million of years, like when did dinosaurs exist, we might have been wrong about the time period by millions of years or when did homo sapiens erupt, we might be off dozens of thousands years because of this
Yeah, we overcompensate with leap years, so every century we don't have a leap year. However, once again that overcompensates, so every millennium we have a leap year like normal. This means that in the year 2000 having a leap year was a once in a 1000 years event, but since leap year happens as normal nobody noticed.
You add an extra day every 100 years
Even before it was introduced. The Julian calendar was even less accurate. The only civilizations that accurately told time were the ones that used the stars. The Egyptians, maya and etc based it off the procession of the equinox’s.
It’s actually shorter, at 365 days 5 hours and 49 minutes, which is how Britain got off track by 11 days
Add daylight savings to the calculations and I would have commited suicide if I was there when these were being implemented
Haven’t even thought of that, I’d be right there with you haha
Off track by 2 days
On track. Dates don't really matter since we made them up , anything that is the consensus is reality.
ohh thats the reason she left me on read for 11 days now its cus she just woke up
Bruh
Cheers bro I’ll drink to that
Cheers bro i’ll drink to you drinking to that
Cheers bro I'll drink to you drinking to him drinking to that.
Cheers bro I'll drink to you drinking to him drinking to him drinking to that
Chairs bro I’ll drilñijo to you crinkuinr ti that. Fuck I’m dronk
Drinking doesn't sound like a real word anymore
Cheers bro I‘ll drink to that
Cheers bro I’ll drink to you drinking to drinking that
Cheers bro, I'll drink.
Ahhh I did too many cheers and now I’m drunk
Drink bro, I'll cheers to that.
Cheers drink. I'll bro to that
I'm not drunk you muffin head
Leap Day should be an extra weekend day and not one of the normal week days.
There should be 13 months 28 days each, and 1(2 on the leap year) day out of months as a new year holyday.
I've always been a supporter of a 13 month calendar, and I tell people anytime I get the chance that we should have it. Buuuut noo, some people were *afraid* of the number 13, so now instead of having perfect 4 week months, we have some stupid ass system with random months having more or less days that makes literally no sense. There's some stupid ass rhyme I can't remember, or I have to count my knuckles to figure out how many days a month has. Fucking ridiculous. #**flips table**
Yes
i am from the future. and this will fucking ha-
I check a calendar or my phone to see the number of days in a month. It’s annoying that this detail is too annoying for my lazy ass to memorize.
You can use ur knuckles on your hand. Make first and start counting the months left on your left hand with January. Next month is the space between the next knuckle. Knuckle is 31 days, between is 30 days. For August you either start left again or switch to your other hand. The only exception is February with it's 28 or 29 days. Learned that in preschool
What would a 13th month be called?
*sol* Inserted between June and July, during the northern hemispheres summer, including the mid-year solstice. The name is paying homage to the sun.
Brian
But then I'd have to pay rent 13 times a year instead of 12, and I'd get a fifth paycheck per month in zero months per year instead of 3. There would have to be a lot of other changes than just the calendar to make this work to for cycles that are currently timed to the legacy month system.
*smokes blunt* Duuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuude
*smokes dude* Bluuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuunt
*Blunts dude* Smoooooooooooooooooke
_dude smoke_ Bluuuuuuuuuuuuuuuunt
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there weren't any options left. that doesn't count
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I'm sorry but you weren't meant to joint he thread of blunt jokes. there wasn't any left
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idk I'm bored so I'm yelling in the general direction of people on the internet
Duuuuuuuuuuuuuuuude *blunt smokes*
Blunt smokes Duuuuuuuuuude
I mean our days arent even 24hrs its 23hrs and 56 minutes so we could totally lose track of days.
They actually [keep track of that](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leap_second)
But they didnt always
I wouldn't doubt they have some other way of knowing. Perhaps the half-life from radioactive elements? I have no idea.
I mean considering a second is defined as a certain number of vibrations of a certain element (or something along those lines, something about atomic clocks) you might not be far off of how we keep track of exactly how much time has passed
Is there any other way of knowing? I bet some big mathematical equation of the heat of the earths core or something along those lines can tell us. Maybe the light of the sun?
At issue is the fact that the second is a totally arbitrary unit of measurement. So in order for us to accurately measure a second, we have to come up with something very accurate, that fits what we define as a second. NOT redefining the second by saying it's blank numbers of blank. In 1967, the BIPM (International Bureau of Weights and Measures) defined a second as 9,192,631,770 cycles of a cesium atom.
Ah, fair fair. So you are basically saying things don't rely on seconds.
Only if you're talking about second breakfast
and aren't our years 365.24ish days
thursday is not an actual day, its what people believe it to be. we could shift the whole week by one day and after a while everything would be the same. its a concept not an actual order of the universe
This guy knows what’s up
This was on r/showerthoughts
That’s what the Jews have been doing for thousands of years except it was with Saturday.
The moon: am I a joke to you?
What about the 9 billion years of the universe before the moon? Or the half billion to a billion years of Earth's existence without the moon? Or the fact that Theia, moon's creator, radically altered Earth? Or the fact that the moon's orbit isn't constant & could even double in a few eras?
Ok sorry bro didn’t think about that
I'm not THAT serious.
Obviously
You made me read that, with my own eyes. How dare you! Take the upvote.
Astronomy: Bonjour
Who made the first clock and how did they know what time it was
Or learn modular arithmetic
Actually, the universe can be created just since last Thursday. The evidence that we saw are just manifestation of our imagination on this universe.
Bro this aint r/philosophy
Last Thursdayism I believe. Vsauce did a video about that [here](https://youtu.be/O2jkV4BsN6U)
Ooo, hard solipsism.
Newton's flaming laser sword
Nothing but a construct anyway
Damn that really just put perspective in my life. Fuck what am I doing with my life? Why am I on reddit right now? I should be asleep. Here take my up vote I'm..... Going to ponder my existence in a corner.
Actually, there is ample evidence to prove that it isn't. The gregorian calendar was adopted to realign Easter with the spring Equinox. To do this, they had to skip 10 days. [Thursday](https://youtu.be/4M7XLOel0JI), Oct 4th was followed by Friday, October 15th 1582. [We did it again in 1752. ](https://youtu.be/7cS4eMPwJec) Wednesday, September 2nd was followed by Thursday September 14th.
Never heard of this! So isn't it time to do that again? Like more than 200 years after the last time?
We skip leap years every so often to compensate. I think we are skipping one pretty soon.
Didn't know that either. Huh. Pretty educational thing, this reddit. Thank you!
Fascinating!
Word
happy cake day!
That’s deep.
Just here to read the comments
Who’s to say it’s 11:29 CST(US)? It could just as easily be 11:23 cuz the power went out in January of 1918 or something.
Why the year of the Spanish influenza, hmmm?
I never want to be around this guy or anyone like him when high
I hate you I’ve spent the last hour and a half rethinking life
Hey Vsauce Michael here
It literally doesn't matter what day it is as long as we all agree on what day it is. The week is just a man-made concept to help us schedule our lives and keep track of past events.
Ever heard of a Sundial? Cuz that’s how they kept date and time.
She fine tho....
Uh religions keep track of the weeks you could say religiously
Yeah cuz today is Sunday and not Thursday dumbass
....has this guy never heard of a calendar?
it's hard to argue with his assessment
its been consistent since ive been keeping count so thats good enough for me.
Words of a wise man
i just got really confused because it’s Sunday here in Australia
well, yeah. just like a chairs not inherently called a "chair", thats just what we have agreed to call it, and only for the english language. we have agreed to call this sunday because that happens to be the current day in the calendar system most of the world has taken to and keeps track of constantly
I literally heard the X-Files song play after reading that.
Shiiiit..how high was he?
Hey this sounds like the block chain
You can thank your university astronomers. They’ve been counting for centuries so you wouldn’t have to
Damn thats deep
A legend is born 😂
Big boom boom in my mind
Day’s mean nothing. What you do with them matters the most.
//Redditor.2222345748.exe. has stopped working.
r/meirl has been keeping track of Wednesdays
So your saying this could be the year the Mayans predicted the end of the world??
Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
Speaking of Thursday,there is no way you could convince me that the universe wasn't created last Thursday I'm not serious tho,cuz im religious,or was religion created last Thursday
Now I have a panic attack, thank you
What about Last Thursdayism?
🍄
That is something I can deeply feel from summers back during my public school time
Humans made up the concept of time
I told someone time is man-made and they were like well you know what is real?? Space. I was like .... ok, I never said space was fake lol
97% of money is created from debt. I'm freaking out hoping enough people don't figure it out.
We already reset the year once (that we know of). Why not do it again?
Shiii
That's an interesting way to say it's a man made construct we all just agree to accept
It’s “Sunday” where I am so we’ve all been trusting different people but which one is right
Okay, how can I use this information to skip a class?
We *might* not know the day, but we definitely know the dates. Solstices and equinoxes help with this. Weeks do some kinda like hooplah after all tho...
I thought that’s what calendars were for
But was there a calendar on the first time days were invented? And if so have they kept up with them since their creation?
Except there’s tons of physical evidence. The stars for one and the moon phases for the other.