Today is New Year’s Eve…in Ethiopia. So go out and party like it’s 1997…because according to the Julian calendar, thats what year it is. What I like best is that neither the Julian calender nor the Gregorian calendar get the date of Jesus’s birth correct according to most historians (the Gregorian calendar is off by about 7 years and the Julian calendar is even farther off.) I also like the story of the pope who said the day after October 5, 1582 was October 13, 1582. Man, those were the days when papal authority really meant something. Not like today where the pope can barely influence a presidential election.
O brave new quantum world!