Infrapink (he/his/him)<p>But, as we now know, the <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/JulianCalendar" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>JulianCalendar</span></a>'s mean year is about 11 minutes 15 seconds longer than the <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/TropicalYear" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>TropicalYear</span></a>, and by the 4th century AD, the dates of the <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/solstices" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>solstices</span></a> and <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/equinoxes" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>equinoxes</span></a> had drifted from their official dates by several days.</p><p>In the 16th century, <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/Pope" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Pope</span></a> Gregory XIII used his authority as <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/PontifexMaximus" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>PontifexMaximus</span></a> to reform the calendar again, because that is something <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/popes" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>popes</span></a> can do.</p>
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Infrapink (he/his/him)<p>See, declaring a <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/LeapYear" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>LeapYear</span></a> was actually the decision of the <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/PontifexMaximus" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>PontifexMaximus</span></a>, which was an elected political position. If Pontifices Maximi would routinely declare a leap year if they liked the <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/consuls" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>consuls</span></a>, and refuse to declare one if they disapproved, in order to prolong or contract the administrations of various consuls according to their own preferences and ambitions.</p><p>Plus, since a <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/LeapYear" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>LeapYear</span></a> wasn't declared until late, outlying parts of the empire wouldn't know until months later.</p>
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