Newsroom discussions about Leap Day 2024 developed into this calendar commentary. SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO) — The Gregorian calendar, used across most of the world and right here in the USA, was ...

In 1582, Thursday, October 4 was followed by Friday, October 15. In a way, one can say that there were 10 ‘lost’ days. Why was this so? Who decreed this ‘loss’? On October 5, 1582, Pope Gregory XIII ...

In honor of Leap Day, this read is for the history nerds. Ever wonder how America caught our calendar up with the rest of the world? In September 1752, we skipped 11 days. According to NASA, the Earth ...

It was not a time machine, nor a TARDIS that caused 11 days to go missing from the calendar in 1752. It was a calendar change, a long overdue one in fact. For centuries, much of the world had existed ...

In 1712, Sweden added an extra leap day, Feb. 30, to its calendar, for that year and that year alone. Every fourth year on the Gregorian calendar is a "leap year" — one in which an extra day (called a ...

The tradition of celebrating the New Year on January 1, a date now globally recognized, has a rich and varied history, tracing back to ancient civilizations and evolving through various calendar ...

In the SR’s “Looking Ahead” of Wednesday, 27 May, (“June is just around the corner”), the anonymous writer claims that it is “the Julian calendar that we use to this day.” This is just — by 432 years ...

This morning we all faced resetting our clocks unless you did it before going to bed last night. We have returned to Standard Time in which ideally the clock is aligned with the sun. Stated simply, ...

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