I ABSOLUTELY loved this video!! May I please share it with a homeschooling project I'm doing, discussing how the calendars changed over time. Yours is by far the best I've come across!
I actually use two calendars. One is the Hijri calendar because I'm Muslim and would need to know when religious observations occur. It uses lunar observations to know when the months change. I also use the Gregorian calendar because I live in the western world, not using it would be profoundly confusing in this part of the world.
Personally, I'm in favor of a calendar that makes a month a standard unit of time. This time would be 4 weeks, or 28 days. This would make it so we had 13 months and only one extra day. This day could be on a rotating schedule and be a holiday where you just go out and do something crazy. It would be rotating so that you could do winter crazy stuff or summer crazy stuff depending on where it fell. It also wouldn't be counted as a day of the week, that way every month would start on Sunday and end on Saturday. Also, every day of the month would land on the same day. (ie, the 7th would always be a Saturday).
Me too! If you go with 28 x 13 you get 364 so one extra day could be tacked onto year-end holidays with one extra day every leap year and this is my preference. If some superstitious sods object then you could use a calendar with 30 x 12 which takes you to 360 days. Then you could tack 5 or 6 onto the year-end holidays as required.
2 reasons why it was set up for 12 months and not 13. Business report quarterly makes it easier than 13. Second is probably bad luck with 13 . No calendar is perfect. In fact, we are slowing down with earth going around the sun. Currently 23 hours 56 mins. 400 million years ago, there were 22 hours in a day and more than 400 days in a year.
It was not just one faith that was trying to calculate the exactness of the year. Though some try to pinpoint it to just one. Overall the months were designed in a way to follow the 3 seasons. As each season was then blocked into 4 month segments. adding a calendar to 13 month would put the seasonal calculation out of whack. As it is not simply days/time but the basis of season, moon cycle, faith that have seen the changes to the calendar.
What's funny is I got to deal with some Chinese people when I was in college, and they always referred to C.E. as Christian Era, and B.C.E. as Before Christian Era. lol. So try this one on for size. Switching from B.C./A.D. to B.C.E./C.E. has done *literally nothing* make the calendar any more inclusive to anybody. It just pisses off a lot of people. Most people are indifferent to the change or have a neutral opinion concerning which one you use, and those who'll actually give you grief over which one you use have been some real sticks up their asses. This has convinced me that the change over was done for no reason other than to insult Christians and other theists, and I refuse to believe otherwise.
Tom C No, you can agree that the rise of Christianity during that time is a historical event. It may be off by a little bit if they made Jesus' birth up, but it's pretty close.
Tom C Christianity had, for better *and* for worse, a fundamental transformative effect upon Western civilization and while you can potentially argue otherwise, you're going to look an utter moron doing so. So yes, the Christian Calendar happens to be quite significant, and was adopted globally because having a precise count of the years since the founding of Rome(albeit you have to add 753 years) and an off-by 7 years count of the years since the supposed birth of a person significant to 3 major global religions who collectively hold 2/3 of the worlds population(Hindus and Muslims ALSO stories about Jesus), works for a decent frame of reference for keeping on the same page in terms of news, long term planning and scheduling and tabulating history and having accurate timing on the interplays between societies with differing native calendars. That the Gregorian Calendar happens to be the global calendar is partly the product of European Hegemony in the 16th to 19th centuries, but even before the European Hegemony or the Great Divergence, Non-european societies would occaisionally use the Julian calendar as a tool for drafting treaties with states which use different calendars. Chinese Scholars knew both Julian and Muslim Calendars, because their native calendars reset with each dynasty and were subdivided by reigns, meaning they couldn't keep deals between different parts of China even going smoothly without conducting analyses which require the cross-referencing of at least 1 continuous calendar to verify. Between that and Christianity starting to catch on in places beyond Europe well before any modern European power was able to spread it to it's modern influence, the Julian or even the Gregorian Calendar may well have still caught on globally even if Western Civilization failed to do so.
What I do not understand is why don't we, westerners, use the Jewish calender since it is based on religion and the creation of the world? There was a lot of history before Christ and there will be even more after him.
hackman669 We don't use the Jewish Calendar for 3 reasons. 1) the Christians who were the dominant religion in the West, based their Calendar off the Julian Calendar, merely using the time frame of the Birth of Christ as a reference instead of the Founding of Rome. 2.) The Jewish Calendar is a Lunar Calendar, making it more convenient for the irregular seasonal cycles of the Middle East than the more regular cycles most of the rest of the world experience, which are better suited for a solar calendar, such as the Julian or Gregorian Calendar. 3.) The Jewish calendar, with about 5700 years under its belt is by no means the age of the universe, the age of the Earth, or even the age of the human species. The time-scale of creation is too vast to have a calendar based on it be useful to any modern society anyway. Even the time scale of the human species is large enough that most digits in the year will be fixed in place.
The best place to use the julian calendar is in a greek orthodox monastery because they still use it there and they also use the byzantine way of counting time and that means that when the sun goes down its midnight
Gregorian calendar was made wrong by using names of he month not accurate to each position, September must be 7th month not 9th, Octo ber must be 8th, Novem ber 9th and Decem ber 10th. Can you correct that and post.
In Nepal, we have a system called BS (Bikram Samwat). Currently, we're on 2071 BS. We also have 12 months, and about 365 days, but the months don't have fixed days and as a result it doesn't really match up with AD calendars. It's fun though. You get to celebrate your birthday twice every year!! :D
Never understood the need to differentiate between BCE/CE and BC/AD. If you're using the same standard (i.e. the birth of Jesus) would it not be just as offensive to non-Christians? Why not pick another arbitrary event to start the year count if you want to completely separate the calendar form religion? The French tried to do this during the Revolution, to no avail.
The shortest day of the year could do for the year count but what would be the first exact year that we can count for sure? Before writing it seems hard to be precise.
No, my point is just that trying to remove the religious connotation from the calendar by changing the name from Anno Domini to Common Era, seems overly politically correct. Are there really people out there who object to AD? If so, why not object to the same system that counts from the accepted birth of Jesus, just with a different name?
I agree, BC and the AD Anno Domini, the year of the lord is a strange mix for foreigners as is the hours AM, PM. Foreigners reads AM as after midday and PM as post midday.
I first heard it as "Christian Era" and "Before Christian Era," because it's still using the Christian calendar, but the exact date of Jesus' birth is not known (presumed to be about four or five years earlier than previously thought -- something to do with a lunar eclipse or something). I think the whole "Common Era" thing is just a byproduct of the P.C. movement, ret-conning already coined terms to have a new secular meaning, sort of like how "Happy Holidays" or "Xmas" were common expressions used by Christians, but then somewhere along the line became repurposed as being for the benefit of non-Christians.
"In the scientific community we keep things open and welcoming to all faiths" This guy obviously didn't read the comments on this video :P Being spiteful towards religious people makes you a bigot, not smart and scientific
So I guess my question is, if Saturday is referred to by some as the true Sabbath, how can we know for sure, when the Gregorian leaped forward 10 days?
We use two calendars hijri n gregorian but mainly we use gregorian... we only look to hijri for ramadan, syawwal n zulhijjah, if someone ask me what hijri date now i have no clue...
Apparently Arizonian native americans (or at least around Phx) use to follow the light drizal of spring monsoon and the heavy -death- pours toward the end of summer to tell the seasons
I always think he talks to continuously without breaks to feel or reflect and now I know why. The camera only runs 3.28 minutes and shuts off. Which brand do they usually promote? - Canon. 2015 years is a tiny bit of human history, we could at least double it.
Wow! This topic has caused a lot of turmoil so let me add another "fact" or two. While many people today associate the Gregorian Calendar with the year of Christ's Birth, the Christian church was more concerned with the month of Christ's death (Easter). This is why all popular calendars are based upon solar-lunar algorithms which include: Metonic Cycle, Callippic Cycle, and Hipparchic Cycle. Many Europeans jumped to the current way of numbering years in 523 AD after Dionysius Exiguus noticed a novel coincidence: The Metonic Cycle conveniently restarts near the birth of Christ". (comment: as a rule, Christians did not celebrate birthdays as this was considered a pagan custom; but this could be useful if you are trying to convert pagans or stomp out pagan traditions). The Gregorian Calendar (1582 AD) contains corrections due to the fact that a year is actually 365.2425 long rather than 365.25 (see: Aloysius Lilius, and Christopher Schlussel)
It's interesting, but I almost want to dislike it just because it was cut off. The thing that caught my attention the most were the last few words. I wish we did follow the calendar that is in correct relation to the lunar cycle and seasons. The world would be in a much better state. Sometimes, I really can't stand religion. I mean that.
yeah it does have a lot of influence, specifically the Catholic and Cristian churches, with calenders, determining the western and eastern worlds, the standard world map, that put Europe top and made it look significantly larger and had the 0 latitude here making it the center of the world, and the much darker justification of African slavery after it was deemed illegal and immoral, and shunning those who's ideas threatened the church (I'm not saying that applies nowadays). Religion isn't all bad, but it certainly has some dark past and that we tend to ignore.
zh11147 Late to tthe game, I know, but the Christian religion was used as the most influential basis to originate slavery that still exists in parts of the world today. Nice try though.
Wait, if the gregorian calendar subtracted 10 days from the Julian calendar, which was about 365.25 days in a year, then whats the explanation for why the gregorian calendar has 365.2425 days in a year?
Not sure why anyone would care if Christmas was celebrated on Dec-25 (Gregorian) or Jan-6 (Julian). First off, there is a lot of biblical evidence (if you believe such things) that Jesus was born in September; probably coinciding with the "Feast of the Tabernacles"; but Christians did not celebrate "birthdays" which was a Roman tradition. Secondly, the christian church placed Christmas close to the winter solstice in order to supplant other observances associated with Heathenism (a natural religion "of the heath" where people value: yule logs, holly, mistletoe, evergreen trees and wreaths, etc.) and Saturnalia (where people exchange "gifts" at parties where they bring smalls meals and drinks); SOUND FAMILIAR? Lastly, convincing people to go into deep debt between Christmas and Easter is proof enough that Christmas is now a secular holiday.
It's about time we adopted 13 months of 28 days where the extra day is on the final day of the year (which wouldn't be a named day like Saturday, Sunday etc) to keep the week length perfect no matter the month. Leap days would be added on on that final month or on the seventh month. It's the only logical set up if we continue to use seven day weeks.
Why 12 months? If we had 13 months we would have 28 days per month, one day will be missing we could add it to the last month with 29 (new years eve) it would be more acurate with the moon cicles, because the moon takes 28 days to cicle the earth and it cicles 13 times in a year. It's far less complicated then 31-30-31-30,etc and a month with 28 days and some times 29 and why february? bahh.... not to mention that women's period comes in 28 days. We need another revolution!!!
4 exact weeks in a month. So much easier to understand. Plus, the months can be aligned with the times of the sun passing through the 13 zodiac signs so as to not piss off astrologers.
Easter date was chosen to cover up the original pre-Christian holidays (Ostara, along with Beltane, Litha, Lughnasadh, Mabon, Samhain, and, of course, Yule) Christian holidays were timed to vanquish the previous Wheel of the Year and make the "natural transition to Christianity" easier
I definitely know OF the Hebrew, Islamic, Hindu, and Chinese calendars; not enough to know more than that they exist, still used and relevant today for their own festivals/observances/etc by the lunar/solar month/year. I also know of a multitude of calendars that are still used and relevant today besides the ones I mentioned. The modern/western calendar, though? The Gregorian calendar? I know plenty about that one! Haha, from AP Euro History. Named after Pope Gregory XIII who commissioned it through Christopher Calvius in expanding the calendar reform from Luigi Lilio. Pope Gregory XIII issued the papal bull "Inter gravissimas", reforming the Julian calendar officially used and implemented within the Catholic Church's Liturgical calendar and the Papal State's calendar. This reform had no authority outside the Church or Papal territory, though Pope Gregory XIII did recommend countries reform their civil calendars. Catholic countries and their colonies were the first to implement the Gregorian calendar civilly, so while the Spanish and English were in America, the Spanish were ahead of the English in their calendar dating, since the England refused to adopt the Gregorian calendar until 1752, so 170 years later. Interesting stuff, and it caught on in the rest of the world as the standard for economic reasons of course.
Only Russians do that. Well... and apparently Georgians as well, which is something I didn't know (I'm assuming you're Georgian from your username). Other Orthodox Christians use the Gregorian Calendar for usual stuff and holidays as well. That's what people do in Romania and I assume Bulgaria, Serbia etc. as well, as I have never heard of our neighbors celebrating Christmas at a different date, except maybe Ukraine.
Ohh, so BCE means "before common era" and CE "common era"? I have seen those initialisms in some UA-cam videos before, but I have had no idea what they mean, since I have never been taught about the term "common era". What a weird sounding phrase. So essentially, it means the chronology according to the Gregorian calendar. When I studied English in the comprehensive school, only the meanings of B.C. and A.D. were taught. Thanks for explaining the meaning of those other initialisms, Seeker.
actually the calendar we use now is gregorian calendar, because the julian calendar actually has moved 14 DAYS from it started to year 1 AD. GET YO FACTS STRAIGHT !!!
I am making a new calendar if you guys want to follow it. I'm gonna post it on every iPhone in the world and I'm sorry but this is how we are going to live. Remember the 10 day drop off? I am making a 10 year drop off so we are going back 10 years starting next week
I find the Islamic calendar a bit confusing as a certain month (say Ramadan) will rotate through the seasons instead of the (in my opinion) more normal "celebration X happens in the summer/winter". But then again, that means that we Muslims are sometimes lucky with how long we have to fast, and other years ... not so lucky. I guess that could be considered refreshing? Or at least keeping it interesting. Lol.
So what calendar did they use to record all the events in the bible since Adam. Adam must have invented reading and writing and arithmetic ( and writing materials), to record all the events and ages of biblical characters that came after him.
Yes the lad was never going to shut up so someone just ended it mercifully.
😂😂😂 so mean
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But funny :D
Lol
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***** knew it would be funny
kidding
does the video cut off in mid speech at the end for anyone else?
That's the joke!!!! It probably wasn't.
Yea, because they are promoting other videos and that is made to make you want to check out what he said next,
But how will I find out about the New Toyota Prius???
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My name is Julian Gregory
How about now?
So u'r the inventor of both calendars?
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Being Chinese my relatives and I celebrate 2 birthdays (one for the lunar calender, and one for the Gregorian), which is pretty cool
You must be really old 😉
Why not stick to just one the one you utilise?
@@justinamusyoka4986 Why stick to one when you can have two birthdays? What a weird question 5 years after they posted what their family do.
I laughed so hard when the video cuts him off at the end! 😂😂😂
Apparently, the calendar he was using did not accurately tell him when the video would end.
I ABSOLUTELY loved this video!! May I please share it with a homeschooling project I'm doing, discussing how the calendars changed over time. Yours is by far the best I've come across!
Whoes going to stop you?
I actually use two calendars. One is the Hijri calendar because I'm Muslim and would need to know when religious observations occur. It uses lunar observations to know when the months change. I also use the Gregorian calendar because I live in the western world, not using it would be profoundly confusing in this part of the world.
What's it like where the seasons are...
AND it's gone.
I literally have to watch these videos twice. LOL! So much info in so little time.
Personally, I'm in favor of a calendar that makes a month a standard unit of time. This time would be 4 weeks, or 28 days. This would make it so we had 13 months and only one extra day. This day could be on a rotating schedule and be a holiday where you just go out and do something crazy. It would be rotating so that you could do winter crazy stuff or summer crazy stuff depending on where it fell. It also wouldn't be counted as a day of the week, that way every month would start on Sunday and end on Saturday. Also, every day of the month would land on the same day. (ie, the 7th would always be a Saturday).
Me too! If you go with 28 x 13 you get 364 so one extra day could be tacked onto year-end holidays with one extra day every leap year and this is my preference. If some superstitious sods object then you could use a calendar with 30 x 12 which takes you to 360 days. Then you could tack 5 or 6 onto the year-end holidays as required.
2 reasons why it was set up for 12 months and not 13. Business report quarterly makes it easier than 13. Second is probably bad luck with 13 . No calendar is perfect. In fact, we are slowing down with earth going around the sun. Currently 23 hours 56 mins. 400 million years ago, there were 22 hours in a day and more than 400 days in a year.
It was not just one faith that was trying to calculate the exactness of the year. Though some try to pinpoint it to just one. Overall the months were designed in a way to follow the 3 seasons. As each season was then blocked into 4 month segments. adding a calendar to 13 month would put the seasonal calculation out of whack. As it is not simply days/time but the basis of season, moon cycle, faith that have seen the changes to the calendar.
The current id the best
Humans are so peculiar...
My parents are Greek orthodox, so we celebrate easter a week later than catholics usually. Every 4 years it lands on the same day
I had to find out about this before you people made a video. Took you guys a long time lol
What's funny is I got to deal with some Chinese people when I was in college, and they always referred to C.E. as Christian Era, and B.C.E. as Before Christian Era. lol.
So try this one on for size. Switching from B.C./A.D. to B.C.E./C.E. has done *literally nothing* make the calendar any more inclusive to anybody. It just pisses off a lot of people. Most people are indifferent to the change or have a neutral opinion concerning which one you use, and those who'll actually give you grief over which one you use have been some real sticks up their asses. This has convinced me that the change over was done for no reason other than to insult Christians and other theists, and I refuse to believe otherwise.
I like that interpretation. Christianity is a historical event whether you believe Jesus existed or not.
Tom C No, you can agree that the rise of Christianity during that time is a historical event. It may be off by a little bit if they made Jesus' birth up, but it's pretty close.
Tom C Christianity had, for better *and* for worse, a fundamental transformative effect upon Western civilization and while you can potentially argue otherwise, you're going to look an utter moron doing so.
So yes, the Christian Calendar happens to be quite significant, and was adopted globally because having a precise count of the years since the founding of Rome(albeit you have to add 753 years) and an off-by 7 years count of the years since the supposed birth of a person significant to 3 major global religions who collectively hold 2/3 of the worlds population(Hindus and Muslims ALSO stories about Jesus), works for a decent frame of reference for keeping on the same page in terms of news, long term planning and scheduling and tabulating history and having accurate timing on the interplays between societies with differing native calendars. That the Gregorian Calendar happens to be the global calendar is partly the product of European Hegemony in the 16th to 19th centuries, but even before the European Hegemony or the Great Divergence, Non-european societies would occaisionally use the Julian calendar as a tool for drafting treaties with states which use different calendars. Chinese Scholars knew both Julian and Muslim Calendars, because their native calendars reset with each dynasty and were subdivided by reigns, meaning they couldn't keep deals between different parts of China even going smoothly without conducting analyses which require the cross-referencing of at least 1 continuous calendar to verify. Between that and Christianity starting to catch on in places beyond Europe well before any modern European power was able to spread it to it's modern influence, the Julian or even the Gregorian Calendar may well have still caught on globally even if Western Civilization failed to do so.
What I do not understand is why don't we, westerners, use the Jewish calender since it is based on religion and the creation of the world? There was a lot of history before Christ and there will be even more after him.
hackman669 We don't use the Jewish Calendar for 3 reasons.
1) the Christians who were the dominant religion in the West, based their Calendar off the Julian Calendar, merely using the time frame of the Birth of Christ as a reference instead of the Founding of Rome.
2.) The Jewish Calendar is a Lunar Calendar, making it more convenient for the irregular seasonal cycles of the Middle East than the more regular cycles most of the rest of the world experience, which are better suited for a solar calendar, such as the Julian or Gregorian Calendar.
3.) The Jewish calendar, with about 5700 years under its belt is by no means the age of the universe, the age of the Earth, or even the age of the human species. The time-scale of creation is too vast to have a calendar based on it be useful to any modern society anyway. Even the time scale of the human species is large enough that most digits in the year will be fixed in place.
Great editing job, cutting off the end o-
2020 Is actually 2012, makes perfect sense now
wait why
@@TsukiRaiki in the Ethiopian Calendar
Hey tell me HOW ?
Great job, they cut off the end. How did they miss th---
Can you do a Dnews episode on what makes a sound sound good vs bad? Why are some sounds annoying and others we like? Thanks!
Did you find an answer in the last 8 years?
Anything about the mayan calendar? Ive heard its very precise
Indian calendar was the oldest calendar of the world
The best place to use the julian calendar is in a greek orthodox monastery because they still use it there and they also use the byzantine way of counting time and that means that when the sun goes down its midnight
Everyone please also read about Indian calendar that was way before started then westerners
Gregorian calendar was made wrong by using names of he month not accurate to each position, September must be 7th month not 9th, Octo ber must be 8th, Novem ber 9th and Decem ber 10th. Can you correct that and post.
In Nepal, we have a system called BS (Bikram Samwat). Currently, we're on 2071 BS. We also have 12 months, and about 365 days, but the months don't have fixed days and as a result it doesn't really match up with AD calendars. It's fun though. You get to celebrate your birthday twice every year!! :D
Damn
Bs for bullshit
Bulgaria still lives using the Julian calendar.
So what year was it to ppl in britian, 1000 years before rome was founded?
MOAR JULIAN PLZ!!!
Be still my heart...
Never understood the need to differentiate between BCE/CE and BC/AD. If you're using the same standard (i.e. the birth of Jesus) would it not be just as offensive to non-Christians?
Why not pick another arbitrary event to start the year count if you want to completely separate the calendar form religion? The French tried to do this during the Revolution, to no avail.
The shortest day of the year could do for the year count but what would be the first exact year that we can count for sure? Before writing it seems hard to be precise.
No, my point is just that trying to remove the religious connotation from the calendar by changing the name from Anno Domini to Common Era, seems overly politically correct. Are there really people out there who object to AD? If so, why not object to the same system that counts from the accepted birth of Jesus, just with a different name?
Patrick Henagan I object to AD because I can never remember the Latin words or even what they mean.
I agree, BC and the AD Anno Domini, the year of the lord is a strange mix for foreigners as is the hours AM, PM. Foreigners reads AM as after midday and PM as post midday.
I first heard it as "Christian Era" and "Before Christian Era," because it's still using the Christian calendar, but the exact date of Jesus' birth is not known (presumed to be about four or five years earlier than previously thought -- something to do with a lunar eclipse or something). I think the whole "Common Era" thing is just a byproduct of the P.C. movement, ret-conning already coined terms to have a new secular meaning, sort of like how "Happy Holidays" or "Xmas" were common expressions used by Christians, but then somewhere along the line became repurposed as being for the benefit of non-Christians.
"In the scientific community we keep things open and welcoming to all faiths"
This guy obviously didn't read the comments on this video :P
Being spiteful towards religious people makes you a bigot, not smart and scientific
I didn't realize the comment section of youtube was the scientific community.
You didn't explain how ancient Syrians and Iraqis invented the Calendar as 360 degrees around the sun plus 5 or 6 days of Celebrations!
2:39 bro got me there🤣
AD is not stands for After death
So I guess my question is, if Saturday is referred to by some as the true Sabbath, how can we know for sure, when the Gregorian leaped forward 10 days?
We use two calendars hijri n gregorian but mainly we use gregorian... we only look to hijri for ramadan, syawwal n zulhijjah, if someone ask me what hijri date now i have no clue...
The thumbnail makes your head look tiny and your glasses magnify your eyes too look weird.
why does the video cut off?
DNews The video cut before the end(few seconds before it should, aka. in the middle of the centence).
almost as if they were making a joke to how different the calendars are OoooooOoOooo (super scary ghost noises illuminati Monsanto)
Apparently Arizonian native americans (or at least around Phx) use to follow the light drizal of spring monsoon and the heavy -death- pours toward the end of summer to tell the seasons
So basically time is a illusion
I always think he talks to continuously without breaks to feel or reflect and now I know why. The camera only runs 3.28 minutes and shuts off. Which brand do they usually promote? - Canon. 2015 years is a tiny bit of human history, we could at least double it.
This was interesting!
So many times I've had to explain how AD is not After Death. What would the 33 years of Jesus's life count as then?
I just simply see BC and AD as not being acronyms. No need to change the terms to please people.
I’m so bored I’ll literally watch anything now
Is it just me or does the video cut off at the end prematurely?
Wow! This topic has caused a lot of turmoil so let me add another "fact" or two. While many people today associate the Gregorian Calendar with the year of Christ's Birth, the Christian church was more concerned with the month of Christ's death (Easter). This is why all popular calendars are based upon solar-lunar algorithms which include: Metonic Cycle, Callippic Cycle, and Hipparchic Cycle. Many Europeans jumped to the current way of numbering years in 523 AD after Dionysius Exiguus noticed a novel coincidence: The Metonic Cycle conveniently restarts near the birth of Christ". (comment: as a rule, Christians did not celebrate birthdays as this was considered a pagan custom; but this could be useful if you are trying to convert pagans or stomp out pagan traditions). The Gregorian Calendar (1582 AD) contains corrections due to the fact that a year is actually 365.2425 long rather than 365.25 (see: Aloysius Lilius, and Christopher Schlussel)
It's interesting, but I almost want to dislike it just because it was cut off. The thing that caught my attention the most were the last few words. I wish we did follow the calendar that is in correct relation to the lunar cycle and seasons. The world would be in a much better state. Sometimes, I really can't stand religion. I mean that.
28 days in a month, 13 months a year. the mayans got it right
yeah it does have a lot of influence, specifically the Catholic and Cristian churches, with calenders, determining the western and eastern worlds, the standard world map, that put Europe top and made it look significantly larger and had the 0 latitude here making it the center of the world, and the much darker justification of African slavery after it was deemed illegal and immoral, and shunning those who's ideas threatened the church (I'm not saying that applies nowadays). Religion isn't all bad, but it certainly has some dark past and that we tend to ignore.
zh11147
Late to tthe game, I know, but the Christian religion was used as the most influential basis to originate slavery that still exists in parts of the world today.
Nice try though.
Bodhisattva777LV 😇
the ending of the video abuptly cut :( .... what did it say?
Wait, if the gregorian calendar subtracted 10 days from the Julian calendar, which was about 365.25 days in a year, then whats the explanation for why the gregorian calendar has 365.2425 days in a year?
Not sure why anyone would care if Christmas was celebrated on Dec-25 (Gregorian) or Jan-6 (Julian). First off, there is a lot of biblical evidence (if you believe such things) that Jesus was born in September; probably coinciding with the "Feast of the Tabernacles"; but Christians did not celebrate "birthdays" which was a Roman tradition. Secondly, the christian church placed Christmas close to the winter solstice in order to supplant other observances associated with Heathenism (a natural religion "of the heath" where people value: yule logs, holly, mistletoe, evergreen trees and wreaths, etc.) and Saturnalia (where people exchange "gifts" at parties where they bring smalls meals and drinks); SOUND FAMILIAR? Lastly, convincing people to go into deep debt between Christmas and Easter is proof enough that Christmas is now a secular holiday.
It's about time we adopted 13 months of 28 days where the extra day is on the final day of the year (which wouldn't be a named day like Saturday, Sunday etc) to keep the week length perfect no matter the month. Leap days would be added on on that final month or on the seventh month. It's the only logical set up if we continue to use seven day weeks.
Can we go back a year 1?
How Was The Calendar Invented? And how was this video edited? Both are mysteries. DNews should make a video on it.
Why 12 months? If we had 13 months we would have 28 days per month, one day will be missing we could add it to the last month with 29 (new years eve) it would be more acurate with the moon cicles, because the moon takes 28 days to cicle the earth and it cicles 13 times in a year. It's far less complicated then 31-30-31-30,etc and a month with 28 days and some times 29 and why february? bahh.... not to mention that women's period comes in 28 days. We need another revolution!!!
4 exact weeks in a month. So much easier to understand. Plus, the months can be aligned with the times of the sun passing through the 13 zodiac signs so as to not piss off astrologers.
Only problem I can see is that the moon will be out by a month very 28 years
Following moon will be less accurate than following the sun.
But even after that it still baffles me that people still use the Gregorian calendar, I feel people should go for a calendar reform.
I have
I canme here expecting how the first calender was invented. 😔
First Caesar regulated the calendar, then the Pope regulated it again over 1,500 years later, both lived in Rome. Funny how it all worked out.
thanks Julian!
Seasons are what?!? 3:27
Easter date was chosen to cover up the original pre-Christian holidays (Ostara, along with Beltane, Litha, Lughnasadh, Mabon, Samhain, and, of course, Yule) Christian holidays were timed to vanquish the previous Wheel of the Year and make the "natural transition to Christianity" easier
Why dont we celebrate the new year on the shortest day Dec 21?
I definitely know OF the Hebrew, Islamic, Hindu, and Chinese calendars; not enough to know more than that they exist, still used and relevant today for their own festivals/observances/etc by the lunar/solar month/year. I also know of a multitude of calendars that are still used and relevant today besides the ones I mentioned.
The modern/western calendar, though? The Gregorian calendar? I know plenty about that one! Haha, from AP Euro History. Named after Pope Gregory XIII who commissioned it through Christopher Calvius in expanding the calendar reform from Luigi Lilio. Pope Gregory XIII issued the papal bull "Inter gravissimas", reforming the Julian calendar officially used and implemented within the Catholic Church's Liturgical calendar and the Papal State's calendar. This reform had no authority outside the Church or Papal territory, though Pope Gregory XIII did recommend countries reform their civil calendars. Catholic countries and their colonies were the first to implement the Gregorian calendar civilly, so while the Spanish and English were in America, the Spanish were ahead of the English in their calendar dating, since the England refused to adopt the Gregorian calendar until 1752, so 170 years later. Interesting stuff, and it caught on in the rest of the world as the standard for economic reasons of course.
I like this kid. A bit of trivia for the ladies: apparently he's got a huge
The vid cut off early...
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cut that video a little short? lol
How we identify the day ...for example Monday....if all world sleep for many days how we then know if it is Friday or Saturday......????
dumb
Anyone else from 2016?
thanks for the informative video. So was Jesus born on January first of year one ? according to current calender ?
Praise the Lord
i gave a thumbs up because of what he said at the end
many different cultures have different calendars
I'm on Julius Calendar to! no really Orthodox Christians (the east Europe) use old calendar to salibrate holidays! like Christmas is in 7th!
Only Russians do that. Well... and apparently Georgians as well, which is something I didn't know (I'm assuming you're Georgian from your username). Other Orthodox Christians use the Gregorian Calendar for usual stuff and holidays as well. That's what people do in Romania and I assume Bulgaria, Serbia etc. as well, as I have never heard of our neighbors celebrating Christmas at a different date, except maybe Ukraine.
I was born in Latvia, but I'm Russian, Ukrainian and Latvian and my family celebrates Christmas on the 7th (:
Juliya Kruglaka Where did you live the most time?
I lived in Latvia for 5 years, New York for 6 years, and Florida for 8 years.
Fawk...
When you close your eyes falling asleep and your brain decides to ask this question so you UA-cam it. 😐
Watching these on 2016. :D
Anyone who's watching this om the 29th of February 2016?
mee!
THE SEASONS WHAT?!?! It's killing me!
Ohh, so BCE means "before common era" and CE "common era"? I have seen those initialisms in some UA-cam videos before, but I have had no idea what they mean, since I have never been taught about the term "common era". What a weird sounding phrase. So essentially, it means the chronology according to the Gregorian calendar. When I studied English in the comprehensive school, only the meanings of B.C. and A.D. were taught. Thanks for explaining the meaning of those other initialisms, Seeker.
Why we have ni feb only 29 days?????
actually the calendar we use now is gregorian calendar, because the julian calendar actually has moved 14 DAYS from it started to year 1 AD. GET YO FACTS STRAIGHT !!!
Yup Russian Old New Years is January 2014 , Also our Christmas is January 6 th is 13 days behind
wouldnt it make sense to add more minutes and or seconds to the day instead?
that explains the roman names , July = Julius , August = Augustus , January = Janus , etc.
I am making a new calendar if you guys want to follow it. I'm gonna post it on every iPhone in the world and I'm sorry but this is how we are going to live. Remember the 10 day drop off? I am making a 10 year drop off so we are going back 10 years starting next week
I find the Islamic calendar a bit confusing as a certain month (say Ramadan) will rotate through the seasons instead of the (in my opinion) more normal "celebration X happens in the summer/winter". But then again, that means that we Muslims are sometimes lucky with how long we have to fast, and other years ... not so lucky. I guess that could be considered refreshing? Or at least keeping it interesting. Lol.
Where the seasons are-
So what calendar did they use to record all the events in the bible since Adam. Adam must have invented reading and writing and arithmetic ( and writing materials), to record all the events and ages of biblical characters that came after him.
It's 5775 but I keep writing 5774 on my checks!
Jews unite
Jk ;D
I love History and Science And Engineering
How!?
I once read that originally there were 13 months, before the gregorian calendar.
at the end he says "what's it like going by a system where the seasons aren't the same dates each year"...You're Welcome
I'm starting to like ur videos.
When he'd said ... These parts go by the Gregorian Calander ... We must not let the manipulation of time take our time
Why did the cut off the very e--
So basically year 1 AD wasn’t a thing at the time until much later lol
I prefer BC (Backwards Count) and AD (Ascending Dates).
Where the seasons what?!
Why can’t we just add a 5 hour, 48 minute and 46 second day for the 32nd of December and there will be no more calendar drift
why didn't they show us the other calenders?! :[ that would have been cool.
I wonder, was there ever a calendar when the first day of the year started in spring and the last day of the year ended in winter?
You mean, starting the year on the Spring Equinox? Never heard of one, but it seems a logical place to put it.
The Roman calendar did at one point, in fact. This is why DECEMber is named that way even though it is now the 12th month of the year.
SkyrimHod I though that was because two months were later added to the year.
George Corley Yes it does seem logical to start the year in a season of rebirth.
Black Lightning I was more thinking it's logical to put it on a clear astronomical marker. Either equinox or either solstice.
He probably got fired from DNews half way through the outro screen :c
Panchang was the first calendar
what about Ethiopian calendars
how could we’ve gotten from the year 0001 to 2021?