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Hyderabad: For something that’s meant to lend order to our lives, the modern Western calendar has a messy history. The mess, in part, comes about because of the difficulty of coordinating the orbits of celestial bodies with the cycles of day and night, and the passage of the seasons. Gregorian calendar, also called the New […]

In the Julian calendar, named after Julius Caesar, every fourth year had 366 days rather than 365.