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 ...

The Julian date format is a five digit number broken into two parts: a two-digit representation of the year followed by a three-digit representation of the day of the year. For example, January 1st, ...

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 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 ...

The Gregorian calendar is the calendar used by most of the world. Also called the "Christian calendar" or "Western calendar," it is internationally accepted as a civil calendar by all but a handful of ...