For millions of Orthodox believers, this date remains a sacred time to commemorate the birth of Jesus Christ, regardless of ...

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 ...

BRITAIN’S remotest community will finally celebrate Christmas tomorrow. And islanders will also see in the New Year nearly ...

The Julian calendar was 0.0078 days (11 minutes and ... isn’t perfect or there would be no need for leap year. But it was a big improvement, reducing drift to mere seconds.

AN ISLAND in the Shetlands, without any pubs, shops, or WiFi, is celebrating New Year’s Day today, January 13. Located 20 miles off the west coast of Shetland, lies Foula – a Scottish ...

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

Certain Eastern Orthodox churches, including those in Russia, follow the ancient Julien calendar, which runs 13 days later ...

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

It is not her fault that Nigerians have never learnt to queue properly, even inside the banks, at ATM machines, at supermarkets, any and everywhere ...

Some years seem to zip by in the blink of an eye, while others seem to drag on for far longer. But some, like leap years, can ...

What we know as the year 2024 or the soon-to-be 2025 is because of the Gregorian calendar. In 1582, Pope Gregory XIII modified the then-accepted Julian calendar in order to space out the leap ...