In 46 B.C.E., the world experienced the longest year in human history,a staggering 445 days that forever changed the way we track time. This remarkable period, orchestrated by Julius Caesar, was part ...

Why does school start in the fall? There’s actually a very good reason for this, and it dates back more than a century!

This is often why there are budget impasses and the threat of short-term government shutdowns in the fall—budgets need approval by the start of the new fiscal year. Many non-profits also follow a ...

The calendar year, as the name implies, follows the structure of a standard calendar and begins on January 1. A fiscal year lasts for the same duration -- 365 days -- but can begin any time as ...

For centuries, humans struggled to sync civil, religious, and agricultural calendars with the solar year. Adding a ‘leap year’ solved the problem—though just for the next 3,300 years.

The marking of a New Year is an age-old tradition around the world—food, fireworks and reflection with friends and family are common threads, but ultimately this varies between different ...

If a perpetual calendar were kept continually operating, it would correctly adjust until the year 2100, when our Gregorian calendar skips the normal leap year. At that point, the mechanism ...