A Brief History Of Calendar

We might take it for it granted but the Gregorian calendar we use today has its roots to ancient Egypt 6,000 years ago

. Gregorian calendar is the most used civil calendar internationally.

The calendar was originally introduced by Pope Gregory XIII who lived from 1502 to 1585. The calendar was created with the help of priest and astronomer Christopher Clavius. Upon its institution on the day after October 4, 1582 (October 15, 1582) 10 days was immediately added to the date , making the next day October 15, 1582. It was done in an attempt to fix the errors of the then Julian Calendar which was originally used from 45 BC until a change was proposed by Pope Gregory XIII.

Not all countries in Europe immediately accepted the new calendar. Some of the countries that almost immediately complied are Spain, Portugal, Italy, and Poland. France, some states that comprises Dutch Republic (modern day, Netherlands), the Catholic population of Switzerland, and Germany followed a year after.

The Protestants intensely opposed the new calendar and still followed the old Julian Calendar. This opposition lasted for more than a century. Some countries comprising the Dutch Republic, such as Denmark, for example, accepted the calendar only until 1700 or 1701. Great Britain and its colonies in the Americas followed suit in 1752. Still, Greece only adopted and accepted the calendar as its official civil calendar only in 1923.

The need to change the then Julian Calendar was part of adding up the 11 minutes to fill in the inaccuracies it incurred in the previous years. The proposed Gregorian calendar served to advance the time by 10 more days along with other devices that would minimize the error of the current calendar.

In spite of the ingenious changes made to the Julian Calendar, the Gregorian calendar still has a number of weaknesses. After a period of time, the Gregorian calendar loses about 10 days from a solar calendar. Is there a bigger event than when the whole world waited in anticipation of computers not working when we came into the new decade on January 1, 2000? Mac users did not have a thing to worry about because their computer software that runs the product line had all of its computer code written with full coding. Microsoft products and software that depended on Microsoft products worried that their computers would go haywire on 1/1/00. Why? Because when Bill Gates developed Windows, the backend coding did not contain all the longtail coding. Microsoft did this because computer storage was a costly item when Windows was developed. It was a shortcut that Microsoft suffered bad press for while Mac users just sat back and enjoyed the wringing hands of tech gurus.

Nevertheless, time is a man-made concept and the calendar we use today is not perfect. But more than ever, a calendar is now used for business and civil purposes more than others.

To create a customized calendar for you or your business, visit our Customize Calendar article to read how our daily planner can help make your life more organized and how it could help your company build its business reputation across its target market. Why buy an ordinary calendar when you can have a unique calendar for the same price?

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