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You think that's bad? The year -45 has been called the "year of confusion," because in that year Julius Caesar inserted 90 days to bring the months of the
by bahmboo 5y ago
You think that's bad?
The year -45 has been called the "year of confusion," because in that year Julius
Caesar inserted 90 days to bring the months of the Roman calendar back to their
traditional place with respect to the seasons.
Even if you don't explicitly deal with historical calendars it is important to understand calendaring in many software engineering areas.
https://eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov/SEhelp/calendars.html https://eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov/SEhelp/calendars.html
- ithkuil 5y agoAnd he was in part responsible for the mess since he assumed the role of Pontefix Maximus but was away from Rome to wage war left and right and didn't fulfil his yearly duties of syncing the calendar. The role of the Pontefix Maximus was to insert intercalar months to sync the calendar to seasons. With the reform he basically automated himself out of the job.
- labster 5y agoThe pontifex quite often used intercalary months for political ends, like lengthening terms of office. But as dictator, Caesar’s term was as long as he wanted, so why not fix the damn thing? Since taxes were determined by month, it’s much better to have stable months, so distant provinces knew for sure what day it was. Still, cool to imagine Caesar as a hacker automating his job.
- erehweb 5y agoSince Caesar was also interested in cryptography the hacker tag fits. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caesar_cipher https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caesar_cipher