Hi everyone on this cold Boxing Day. When I saw today’s #3TC prompt, I was reminded of a newspaper article my father shared with me in late 1999. It was called something like “The war on time” and was about all the ways people have fought over timekeeping and calendars over the centuries. It included, of course, the change from the Julian to Gegrorian calendar in 1582. I gathered from that article that our calendar’s still not fully aligned with the sun, so that it’s proposed that the year 4000 won’t be a leap year.
By the way, can you believe we’re closer to that year now than we are to the year Jesus was born? Interestingly, in that same article I read that Jesus wasn’t born in the year 0 (which I’m pretty sure no-one had a number for back then) or 1. He was probably born at least five or six years before then and most certainly not on Christmas day. It makes some sense to celebrate his birth around the end of the year though, but that would be closer to March rather than January. Then again, back in the day the months of January and February didn’t exist.
I used to love learning all about timekeeping and calendars. I could probably find a lot more info about it now, over 25 years later and with my having access to the Internet. But I can’t be bothered, honestly. I’d rather be writing random ramblings.
Now going to turn off my little electric heater. The heating in the care home broke down on Wednesday. I noticed I was freezing, but didn’t connect the dots, since it was supposed to be -5°C outside too. I spent the holidays with my wife and came back around 5PM this evening to a home that was still cold. The staff figured out the problem yesterday and it got fixed, but with the type of heating we have, it takes forever for the entire home to warm up, hence why I put on the heater.
A Multitude of Musings 
Hi Astrid,
thanks for joining in. Interesting post. I wonder if the world will still be here in 4000, leap year or not. Certainly wouldn’t be anything we’d recognise from today.
Sorry about the heating packing up. It’s cold here too, 7C with a real feel of 2C. The wind is always bitter on the East coast of the country.
Snuggle in and keep warm.
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Thanks for commenting. I honestly doubt that with climate change and all the world as we know it will still exist in the year 4000. I’m sorry it’s cold out where you are too.
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I don’t think I’d want to be here for 2100!!!
Always cold on the East coast, as we get the winds off the North Sea.
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Ah yes, I see. Hadn’t thought of that. Usually here in the Netherlands, the parts that aren’t close to the sea usually experience the most extreme weather both hot and cold. Then again here the coast is only on the west and north.
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The sea is 600 yards away and we hear it at night or first thing in the morning. There are good flood defences here and conditions would have to be damn severe to reach us.
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Time is something we feel we have a lot of till one day we don’t feel that way at all and the older we get the faster it slips away
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Agree completely. Thanks for stopping by.
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Time is such an interesting thing. As we become able to measure it to smaller and smaller degrees, we become more of a slave to it.
Hope that things have finally warmed up for you.
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Thank you. Unfortunately, it looks like the heating is still broken. Grateful for my little electric heater.
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Interesting post Astrid, I find all of this really fascinating too! Hope you enjoyed your holiday! Xx
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Thank you. Yes, I did enjoy Christmas a little.
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I have never really thought about our calendars not being synced precisely with our sun and orbit. I just assumed they had it figured right by now. Oh well. As long as the days don’t get any shorter, I can adjust accordingly… but I need my sunshine.
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I can totally relate to needing sunshine. As for the days getting shorter or longer, I think that’s not what’s happening. It will just get light earlier and dark earlier too. But it’s only marginally so for the time we’ll be alive.
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