The love for tradition kept the Eastern Orthodox Church from adopting the Gregorian calendar though it was based on reason ...

Dr Satya Dev Gupta Following Christmas, the New Year of different calendars begins. The most scientifically based transition, ...

Do you know that there was a year that lasted 445 days?46 BCE was the longest year ever recorded, lasting 445 days, 80 days more than a usual year.A year is defined by the Earth’s orbit around the Sun ...

At the start of a new year, we become increasingly aware of the marking of time into significant chunks and milestones. Yet, ...

Foula in Shetland, the most westerly of the archipelago, will celebrate Christmas today, 6 January, in observance of the old ...

Foula in Shetland, Britain's remotest permanently inhabited island, marks Christmas and New Year according to an ancient ...

Most of the world runs on the Gregorian calendar with 365 days, or 12 months ... is followed to determine religious occasions. The Julian calendar is followed by those of the Orthodox faith ...

His calendar, authorized in 46 B.C., used the 365-day solar calendar as its basis and became known as the Julian Calendar. Janus, a mythical king of early Rome, had been used as the image of the ...

The popularity of ‘English New Year’ in Nepal reflects the association of English with modernity and progress.

This oversight created challenges in aligning the calendar with the solar year, which spans approximately 365.25 days ... resulting in a 10-day adjustment. Since then, the Julian calendar has been ...