Calendars Around the World

[@archdukefranzferdinand567]

Great, now he's not going to upload for the rest of the decade...

[@luisvas7456]

Yeah maybe true 😔 also beware of the comments that say your comments say otherwise and they come here will give them an explainsion okay lol

[@IloveRumania]

Will we be around in 2030?

[@victorpisarev7768]

Ah, cause of WWI acts as a harbinger of yet another military conflict. Here we go again!

[@subraxas]

This decade ends at the end of 2020, not 2019. Decades and centuries start with a year 1, not 0.

[@lamegliogioventu]

Treasure the videos that he makes. I believe most of it is actually done for personal research and inner growth. In a world where we are used to having everything fast, free, and massive amounts of it, the scholar embraces the tranquillity of his own pace, for learning is the very essence of Spiritual Evolution -

[@wzr3293]

6:43 *Bill Goats*

[@Alvionalx]

?

[@Alvionalx]

Matty Bruno Lucas Zenere Salas ำกกกพไกหรัฯะดหสีดส้ื็กรหยหฯ

[@mingfanzhang4600]

WZR #JustMonika #FreeTaiwan #LarryLawton

[@NicolasGarcia-mr6hw]

@@mingfanzhang4600 ስለምንድን ነው የምታወራው? በአስተያየቱ ውስጥ ያለው ከተናገረው ጋር ምን ያገናኘዋል?

[@RaffinhaX]

@@NicolasGarcia-mr6hw Bill Gates is a Goat.

[@WonderWhy]

One last video before the year is out, and an appropriate topic - calendars. Like my last video, this is a video I have been wanting to make for some time now. I start by looking at the transition from Julian to the Gregorian calendar, before looking at some traditional calendars from around the world and throughout history. This video was made possible by Skillshare, if you're making any New Year's Resolutions to learn something new in 2020, Skillshare is perfect. Get two months free using my uniqe link here: skl.sh/wonderwhy2 This has the added bonus of helping support this channel. My recommendation would be Thomas Frank's Productivity Masterclass, and it's a great pleasure to recommend someone who I actually know personally! All the best for 2020. Have a happy new year! BONUS VIDEO: Full Chinese Zodiac Sexagenary Cycle (unlisted) - kzbin.info/www/bejne/pqCbqYKVptt6oKM

[@NikonKanava]

Great Video Happy New year 2020!!!

[@charlesramos7339]

Happy New Year to you too!

[@NotHPotter]

I was going to make a sidereal calendar joke, but with people here seemingly actually taking digs at the video, I'll leave it at great work, and happy arbitrary period of revolution around the nearest star!

[@Persona1996]

WonderWhy Best calendar: French Revolution calendar

[@NotHPotter]

@@Persona1996 I think we really missed out on metric time.

[@MisterTipp]

Imagine being born on the 30th of February...

[@totallynotjeff7748]

That moment when you don't have a birthday.

[@jayit6851]

*Is an elder* Someone: "How old are you?" Them: "I'm 0 years old"

[@thelaniakean]

30th of February Now that would be a cursed image

[@blueberrysavers3547]

Do you mean 29?

[@MisterTipp]

@@blueberrysavers3547 No, watch the video again.

[@meltup3668]

**Current Year** Gregorian - 2020 Islamic - 1441 Solar Islamic (Persian) - 1399 Hebrew - 5780 Amazigh/Berber - 2970 Coptic - 1746

[@coryplum5375]

the Buddhist calender -- 2564

[@kirubelamare9509]

Ethiopian - 2012

[@destinixshakur]

Kirubel Amare this is exactly why I'm watching on these calendars

[@aqueseth]

Chinese - 4718.

[@m.c.martin]

Mayan - 2024 (when you account for all the missed leap years over a few thousand years)

[@slamwall9057]

Missed opportunity to say that the Mayans managed to keep track of dates for so long because they used Skillshare

[@subraxas]

:-D

[@AnhThuNguyen-zz2hm]

no

[@neddyladdy]

I wish you had never said that. I can't get up off the floor now.

[@SunitaSharma-hf1np]

ROFL 🤣

[@malikfaisal416]

Damn, even skillsahare sponsored an entire civilization

[@juliusnepos6013]

3:35 *Sweden once had a february 30* Other Fact and Education Channels: *Write that down! Write that down!*

[@k_8609]

HAI's Script after this : So 30 feb does exist and you can buy Toyota Corolla for free on that day, but just don't tell the swids about this offer. Except this offer has already passed and you need a time machine to go back in time.

[@BSKX17]

my thoughts exactly. remember it in case you get to be on "who wants to be a millionaire?"

[@ganaraminukshuk0]

Pff, there's an alternative calendar that has a February 35th, May 35th, August 35th, November 35th, and every 5 or 6 years, December 35th. All other months are 28 days long. (It also has an alternative where every month is 30 or 31 days long and every 5 or 6 years, December is 37 days long.)

[@miaowmiaowchowface]

@@k_8609 LOL

[@KasabianFan44]

K _ Toyota Corollas are a RealLife Lore thing, not an HAI thing. No, I’m not fun at parties.

[@kelly2fly]

My brother is a leap year baby. He'll be 36 soon but only has 8 birthdays so far. So technically my 10yo is older than him.

[@Ivienen]

You didn't mention the decimal calendar that was used in the French revolution

[@juliusnepos6013]

*Thermidor intensifies*

[@juliusnepos6013]

Btw that is very interesting.

[@emitoma3891]

It’s at 0:18

[@Kazavop]

*December hasn't been a thing, for years!*

[@vanKarsie]

Gopi Gajwelly I’m dying

[@CraigKostelecky]

A few years ago, I decided to try to make my own calendar and let the seasons decide the month length and I was amazed at how well it works. First you start your year on March 1 and sync that up with the spring (I'll use the northern hemisphere for all of my seasonal names) equinox. Spring is 93 days long, so March, April and May all get 31 days. Which makes June 1 the start of summer. Summer is also 93 days, so June, July, and August also get 31 days. So September (which is now the 7th month again) begins on the first day of fall. Since autumn is 90 days, each month gets 30 days. And that leaves us with winter beginning on December 1, which is 89 days. So December and January get 30 days and February gets 29 or 30 days depending on leap year. With this calendar, you always know which season it is based on the month you're in and it's super easy (barely an inconvenience) to know how many days are in each month. There is no completely arbitrary date which the year begins. And finally the names that use numerical prefixes again make sense. The only downside is transitioning to this calendar would be difficult as we would need to shift the dates back by about 20 days (or ahead by about 345). Edit: I later learned that this calendar is the same idea as the old Persian calendar.

[@aaravdiwakaristhebest]

I appreciate ya

[@AJAYSINGH-ns1vv]

Because you got very near to hindi calender which is oldest and most accurate.

[@JohnFallot]

Intriguing! I’m tinkering with a calendar myself, although my approach is to just add a 13th month and make all the months 28 days long. There’s also an Intercalary period for New Years, which is 2 days long on Leap Years. Aligning that with the seasons (starting from the winter solstice) means Spring always starts on the first week of the 4th month, Summer on the 2nd week of the 7th month, and Fall on the 3rd week of the 10th month.

[@AyeManRavoen]

And the Persian took it from the Indian Vedic civilization.

[@booblam6919]

Why March 1?)

[@joemacleod-iredale2888]

Everyone else imagining the Mayans with Scottish accents now?

[@alextraordinary5294]

Year: 2020 Ethiopia: 2012 COINCIDENCE? I THINK NOT

[@cheesestickspartyagain9667]

so if i was in ethiopia i would be 2

[@joed72]

@@cheesestickspartyagain9667 no you wouldn't be. You'd be the same age just the year you were born will change

[@ananttiwari1337]

@@cheesestickspartyagain9667 Why'd you reveal your age on the internet...

[@vioooarora]

@@joed72 r/woooosh

[@thetrickster9885]

@@cheesestickspartyagain9667 so you are 11?

[@babiigoat923]

I'm year of the goat. Forget the haters, goats are the greatest of all time, as they say.

[@mongislort6440]

At least goats exist. Checkmate dragons.

[@izzatharis9586]

I have question why your profile name 'BABI'iGoat

[@hydrolito]

Goat has more meat than rabbit and rat but not a bull.

[@dukeofdepressed3980]

BabiiGoat Pakistan would agree

[@fluffly3606]

I'm a horse; my parents AND my girlfriend are monkeys. We're so close ; _ ;

[@nikkifrozen3814]

What about indian and Persian calendars

[@thermonuclearexplosive]

Oh yes indain, my favourite calendar

[@Suite_annamite]

Is there *a unified name for the calendar* used in the *Indian subcontinent and peninsular Southeast Asia?* Because I know that *places as far afield as Nepal and Cambodia have the same holidays and new year* , but what is it called?

[@thermonuclearexplosive]

idk

[@ojas3885]

@@Suite_annamite I don't know about the subcontinent but here in Nepal, we follow what is called the Bikram Sambat (B.S.) calender, with a new year in April. currently, it's the year 2076 and 2077 will begin on the 13th of April.

[@amitshukla4636]

@@Suite_annamite It is called Vikarm Sambat Calender. It is being used in Nepal, India and other countries which is having Hindu Population and this Calender is used for Hindu Festivals.

[@henrywong2725]

Fun fact about the Chinese calendar, in the sixty year cycle there is a specific year that would be 庚子 and there is a pattern in Chinese history that every time this year appears, China would experience a so called 「國難」, a national hardship/crisis, and yeah, 2020 is 庚子

[@howdoipickaname9815]

Coincidence? I think *_NOT!!!_*

[@lydiaaaaa3076]

Omg I didn't know about such a thing! That's so interesting and amazing seriously!

[@thelaniakean]

Now we need a galactic calendar for earth’s orbit around the Milky Way

[@TaiFerret]

I've been working on one for a while. I also make use of planetary years and precession cycles, aside from the galactic year.

[@sophia.e.cooper]

I love the music you used on this video. I don’t know why but I feel like it really fits the tone of the video! Awesome job😁

[@peachykeen3194]

The little things are what make your videos so good, like how you zoomed in on the monthly calendar on the lower right when talking about the 9th month of the Islamic calendar because Arabic is written right to left. Or maybe I'm just reading too much into it.

[@MrsKoldun]

Would have been great to explain why 01.01 was chosen as the start of a New Year. In Ancient Rome 01.03 was the start of a new year (marking September the 7th month just as its name suggests, and so on for October, November, December), thus making January and February the last two months of a year. However new officials like consuls assumed their offices on the 01.01 and over time the calendar was matched with this date, taking the last two months and pushing them to the front, consequently causing the names of the months to be out of sync with their position in the calendar.

[@tompoessy]

no, the reason theyre out of sync is because january and february were added later, it was originally a 10 month calendar, with the months martius (march), aprilis (april), maius (may), junius (june), quintilis (july), sextilis (august), september, october, november, and december

[@concept5631]

​@@tompoessy Source?

[@Jack-496]

How Are WonderWhy Videos And Calendars Alike? *You Only Get One Each Year* For Real Though, Great Video 😂

[@rezaalan3991]

If you are lucky, you get two videos every half of the year

[@IloveRumania]

This the 3rd video he uploaded this year and I'm glad.

[@subraxas]

@IloveRumania What are you talking about? He uploaded 10 videos during 2019.

[@Jack-496]

subraxas I’m joking

[@subraxas]

@Jack Eckhard Yeah, I have known that you did. My reply was to 'IloveRumania', though, not you. He/she seemed to be serious.

[@astrum097]

Been enjoying your content since 2013, never stop grinding bro!

[@Daniel_Huffman]

That’s what she said.

[@minihjalte]

Y2k and y2k38 does have significans because of the way we represent dates on computers. The reason y2k is spoken of a fiasco is because of the monumental effort put in to making sure no damage was done. The channel Computerphile has a good video explaining it.

[@Kylora2112]

And some idiot pundit claiming it was a hoax because nothing happened...nothing "happened" because IT people BUSTED THEIR ASSES FOR 2 YEARS TO MAKE SURE NOTHING HAPPENED.

[@jayit6851]

yes but people thought y2k would be the skynet uprising or something.

[@thelaniakean]

They even grounded planes because of it. I’m not computer expert so I may be wrong, but could that really cause chaos on a plane?

[@minihjalte]

@@thelaniakean a badly written system could likely crash the computer it is running on if its a embedded system like the ones in planes. But the more likely problem would be in Air Traffic Control, if suddenly planes are not showing up because the computer believes they flew 100 years ago and therefore dont need to show them. Planes are not grounded without proper risk assesement as its terribly expensive.

[@JanRademan]

I started my working career on 1 Jan 2000. Well 3 Jan actually, since they took a extra day for Y2K. Every computer in the office had a sticker on it to indicate it was inspected and had been tested to be Y2K compatible the previous year.

[@OktaSila]

The Balinese calendar or also known as the "Çaka calendar" consists of 35 days in a month and 12 months in a year. The new year celebration is called "Nyepi Day".

[@veerasudhama9528]

You have missed the important Indian calendar!!

[@HimanshuSingh-ce8tf]

it's Hindu calendar, I was waiting for it. Video is great but incomplete without Hindu calendar.

[@seanvasquez523]

@@HimanshuSingh-ce8tf, Is it one of those calendars that does have a year zero because zero was invented there?

[@ChoCoMoCo69]

@@seanvasquez523 coz it Invented there i don't think coz everything starts from Zero then yes.

[@seanvasquez523]

@@ChoCoMoCo69, Yeah and when you think about it I think most ancient calendars and some modern calendars that don't use the decimal system in them didn't even have a year zero in their systems to begin with because they don't know such number ever existed or even if they did have a idea of what it is was, they either didn't have a symbol of it didn't knew all the general concept of it well enough and couldn't use it so some numeral systems didn't have a zero in it. So I think the Indian calendars and other modern calendars are exception to this because not only the Indians "invented" the zero but we also now have a general idea of the decimal system and the number zero because of Hindu-Arabic numerals. That's why no one gave a big deal about no year zero in our most used calendar system anno domini until around the time when the Gregorian calendar came to be a thing, when both Hindu-Arabic numerals starting to be used widely, and both the concept of zero and the decimal system came widely in Europe around the time of the calendars introduction so that's why after the calendar introduction Astronomical year numbering and much later ISO 8601 were made in the first place so to get around this problem.

[@ChoCoMoCo69]

@@seanvasquez523 bruhh India gives Zero doesn't mean thats why Indian use that. It's a basic thing that everything starts from Zero and sud be. India invented That and it's Great.

[@SWLinPHX]

I’m finally remembering to write “year of the rat” on my checks. Out of force of habit I was still writing “year of the pig” until about last month.

[@kkavehma1]

Thanks. It was great! Wish you had mentioned Persian calendar too 😀 Similar to Gregorian. I recall more accurate when come to leap year after revision in 11th century. (in ancient Persia they would add a month every 130 years instead of leap years!

[@revinhatol]

And that's how BoBoiBoy celebrated Ramadan and started Syawal in a big way, from the first day (of August) all the way to Malaysia's 54th Day of Nationhood.

[@bkes8196]

There's another Calendar you missed which is used predominantly in Nepal and parts of India called the Bikram Sambat. This is also a Lunar calendar and the interesting thing is some months could have up to 32 days! We are in the year 2076 now. There's also a Buddhist calendar which i have little to no knowledge about but it exists in Nepal.

[@pratikbhagwat379]

Saka Calendar

[@petergeramin7195]

So Cyber Punk 2077 starts next year? Nice

[@Hulululul488]

​@@pratikbhagwat379We survived through it 💪🏻

[@aarspar]

I'm kind of surprised you didn't mention the Javanese calendar. It's the only calendar used until today that does not use a seven-day week. There are only five days in a week. The calendar combines three different dating system (Gregorian, Islamic, and Javanese itself) to create up to 7 intertwined but separate cycles.

[@theonlygaurav4956]

Was hoping to see the Nepalese calendar

[@EdinProfa]

Such an important nation and civilization in world history.

[@solehsolehsoleh]

Also in Muslim/Hijri Calendar, we start new day at dusk/sunset, not midnight. For example, if sunset is at 7:15pm on 15/1 then after 7:15pm, it's 16/1.

[@scotandiamapping4549]

Imagine the people that were born on February 30th in Sweden, they would *never* have they're birthday's.

[@HimanshuSingh-ce8tf]

I enjoyed the videos as always, cleared few of my doubts about switch from Julian to Gregorian calendar, however, I expect quality from WonderWhy. I understand that talking about all calendars is impossible but you missed an important one, Hindu calendar. It's important because it is still in use for religious and cultural purpose just like Islamic and Chinese calendar by almost a billion people.

[@caryw2053]

The method used to decide when to add the leap month in Chinese calendar is complicated, but in general it's 7 months every 19 years (same as Hebrew calendar).

[@SupremeLeaderKimJong-un]

We have our own calendar, the Juche calendar. It’s Juche 109 (2020) in Pyongyang

[@IloveRumania]

No thanks.

[@quyenluong3705]

I don’t think it should be classified as a calendar. That’s an old date keeping way that existed in East Asia for a long time by the way of using era name. Taiwan uses similar system counting the establish of roc as year 1.

[@mobix25]

you forgot about ethiopia, which has 13 month and its own clock count.

[@BrokebackBob]

An excellent overview of the calendars in various cultures!! Bravo! 👏

[@AndresRodriguez-lq1yn]

12:18 that is Teotihuacán, a whole different mesoamerican civilization

[@jimminyaa398]

I'm quite sad and mad that you didn't add Nepalese calendar.🇳🇵✨❤️still lots of love from NEPAL 🇳🇵✨❤️

[@FactaliciousHQ]

I think it's called Hindu calendar

[@jimminyaa398]

@@FactaliciousHQ yes

[@FactaliciousHQ]

@@jimminyaa398 ya my family also use that to see the amavasya and Purnima of the months 😂 ... Hindi panchang is really accurate .... From lunar to solar Eclipse everything is explained in it..... I hate when people celebrate 1 Jan as new year we should celebrate it on navratri in April...

[@maya9589]

Today is the 16th day of the ninth month of the year 2076 according to Bikram Sambat, the official calendar we Nepalese follow. Months can be as long as 28 days to 32 days. We also go by a different calendar(which follows lunar days/tithi) that is mainly used for religious purposes, as in determining festival dates, auspicious date and time for weddings, coming-of-age ceremonies and so on. Astrological signs also differ from (what is considered)the usual as the 12 zodiac signs are assigned according to the 27 nakshatras(don't know what to call the English equivalent of it) you're born under. There are some similarities our calendars share with calendars used in other parts of the world as well as certain differences and it's honestly quite fascinating.

[@vansingh1]

Same as india

[@DerekBlais]

All of these calendars are interesting, but I prefer to start my week on a Monday, not a Sunday like many of the examples featured. When I buy calendars or agendas, I only buy Monday starters.

[@ariamh823]

What about Saturday starter and not having to go to school in Friday and Thursday

[@SantanaCampbell]

I was born during the last days of the year of the Goat (Western calendar: Jan. 7, 1992; Chinese calendar: Dec. 3, 1991)

[@alikadim6908]

What about Persian Calendar/Solar Hijri Calendar? The Solar Hijri (Persian) calendar is one of the oldest calendars in the world, as well as the most accurate solar calendar in use today. Since the calendar uses astronomical calculation for determining the vernal equinox, it has no intrinsic error, but this makes it an observation-based calendar.

[@CraigKostelecky]

A few years ago I wanted to try to see how a new calendar would work based on the seasons and I later realized I accidentally remade the Persian calendar (at least partially). I made a full comment in this video describing my thought process back then.

[@AyeManRavoen]

​@@CraigKosteleckyand that Persian was copied from india... Learn about it.

[@somerandomguyonyt8766]

Being an orthodox Christian in America we use 2 calendars, the Gregorian and the Julian, we use the Gregorian most of the time but we still celebrate Christmas on January the 7th and celebrate Pascha or Easter a week after most Christians do

[@idtyu]

Ah, Chinese calendar also has constellation or stellar part as well, depending on where the sun, the moon, movement of some of the planets, and constellation, we have 24 "season" every year, marking things like beginning of spring, peak of summer, beginning of raining season for the growth of crops etc., as to the accuracy of that, I find it quite accurate in Canada

[@avwholesomegamer]

12:59 Y2K panic was about a specific threat we knew was coming, not the end of the world. It took a heroic effort to update important computer systems to four-digit years because we knew that some pretty important services would crash if we didn’t get it done in time. The consequences were frightening and most of us had no control over what would happen. We had to just take bankers’ and politicians’ word for it that everything would be fine.

[@alchin9]

I am a pig (4 December, 2007). My father is a rat (13 August, 1960). My mother is a dragon (18 October, 1964). My sister is a rooster (29 August, 1993). And my brother is a rat (29 March, 1996).

[@Daniel_Huffman]

Huh. I was born exactly five years before you. (Horse)

[@jorgeenriquemedina5638]

Fun fact. 1984, besides marking the beginning of the current 60 year cycle in Chinese calendar, also marked the 1800th anniversary of the Yellow Turban Rebellion. During the rebellion, the leaders believed that since a new cycle was beginning, a new dynasty should begin too. And they also said that the sky would turn yellow to signal this change.

[@denzal689]

Coming back to this video, I noticed something... January 2020 was the start of the Chinese year of the rat. Rats are famous for spreading the plague...

[@IloveRumania]

*Uh oh*

[@supyall4477]

...

[@birkhabahadurlimbu6954]

Sir, Nepal follows Bikram calendar Which is almost 57 years faster than Gregorian calendar

[@daynehaworth9258]

Fascinating! Would love to know what preceded the Julian calendar in Europe? Is it Julian because of Julius Caesar? Would also love to know what calendars were used in Africa and people are mentioning India and Persia. Is it possible to do a part 2?

[@MappingRobloxAnimations]

The calendar that precceded the Julian was the Roman Calendar

[@CraigKostelecky]

Basically, each location had their own system of tracking time. It was the spread of the Roman empire (and later the power of the Pope) that caused so many countries to use the same system.

[@Junokaii]

Like usual, a great video WonderWhy. You may take longer, but it certainly makes up the loss in time with quality. PS Thanks for keeping the sponsor until the very end. I find it infuriating when I'm watching a video on KZbin... watching the first 30 seconds like normal then have them go 'oh by the way here's our sponsor *talks for two solid minutes about it* okay now back to the video'.

[@juandiegoprado]

20 Kin makes a Winal, 18 Winals make a Tun, 20 Tuns make a Ka’Tun, 20 Ka’Tuns make a B’ak’Tun, and 3 B’ak’Tuns make a full disadulation.

[@nygothuey6607]

Me: *head explodes*

[@zetafish7347]

I wonder what it means to have both a dragon and a goat for parents.

[@HistoryExplained]

Love your content! You’re a great inspiration to new history channel like mine. Thank you! ⭐️

[@HenkdeYouTubesteen]

Hi man I'm a subscriber of yours! Your content is very good, keep it up!

[@QuranicRemembrance]

*Additional information about the Islamic Calendar. Allah says in the Qur’an -* “Verily, the number of months ordained by Allah is twelve-in Allah’s Record since the day He created the heavens and the earth-of which four are sacred.” (Tawba 9:36)

[@the1derpface]

There's actually two more new years in the Hebrew calendar: 15th of Shvat, the new year for trees, which is a minor holiday, and 1st of Elul, new year for beasts, which almost no one has ever heard about. Also at 9:42, you try to fast in Summer when it's 40 degrees outside.

[@SabaRaba1913]

ממתי לעזאזל יש חג בראשון לאלול Never heard about the 1st of Elul

[@sllk2914]

He wished happy new year on 2020 Jan 1st ❤️ How sweet of him 😁

[@danielcuevas5899]

You talked about the Mayan calendar in the video. But used the Aztec calendar in the thumbnail 🤦🏽‍♂️. Excellent video either way, happy new year WW.

[@DaGreenCat_]

Imagine being from Sweden and being born on February 30th

[@ThatKindaGuyTravel]

I never realised how dumb that 2012 hoax was till just now. Like I thought the Mayan calendar specifically put 2012 as the end of the calendar.

[@jayit6851]

Yeah media made it out to be the end of the the entire mayan calendar, not the ticking over of a friggen baktun...

[@joed72]

@@jayit6851 2020 was 2012 in the Ethiopian calendar...

[@inkyscrolls5193]

I reckon WonderWhy uploads one minute per year. See you all in 2034, folks.

[@mfaizsyahmi]

0:52 Three hundred and sexty-sex 5:22 Year of the Peg

[@Matthew-nv2wy]

Lol

[@part9952]

Where is his accent from? I have always wondered. Sounds interesting

[@suhridguha2560]

There are also the many Indian calendars both solar and lunar.

[@lottery248]

remembered Mayans' calendar got misused to be "the end of the world on 21st December 2012"? that day was just a new year to Mayans.

[@DanuProductions]

My birthday ಠ︵ಠ

[@cheesestickspartyagain9667]

We missed 8 years and the Aztecs predicted that 2011 would be chaos

[@Arisbaey]

but 2020 is 2012. G.C have fault of 7 or 8 years. even if it is not the end it might be starting or stg.

[@Arisbaey]

Ethiopian calender now is 2013, 2012 ended in September 11.

[@patrik5123]

"Y2K fiasko" I'm assuming you're referring to the Millennium Bug? If so, you're wrong - it was definitely a thing. We just managed to solve most of the issues stemming from it. Computerphile recently did a video on it.

[@Programmdude]

Y2K was a real worry. Not in terms of end of the world (obviously), but in terms of badly designed computer systems not coping with overflow from 99 (1999) to 00 (2000). There will be another one in 2034(I think) that represents unix time overflowing. But programmers were aware of this issue and most were issues fixed before 2000, so no serious damage was caused.

[@harunsuaidi7349]

Great video as always! Small correction, though: Muslims fasting starts at dawn, not sunrise. So, yeah, in summer it's pretty tough. Our calendar also has similarity with Jewish calendar that the day starts at sunset.

[@gilangp2011]

Assalamualaikum

[@solehsolehsoleh]

correction: the fasting month start at sunset, the act of fasting start with sahur before dawn.

[@gilangp2011]

@@solehsolehsoleh yea

[@jeromydoerksen2603]

That gear animation for the Mayan calendar was awesome! Keep up the good work!

[@hastivahdat3417]

Thank you for the information. There is also a Persian Calendar used in Iran

[@Gar65]

Bahá'í (Badí) Calendar - 19 months x 19 days each + 4(5) days known as Intercalary days. 😉

[@shimmeringqueer9605]

in the Hebrew calendar, Adar is the month which is repeated and Adar bet(2) is the month that always happens.

[@nivas28]

You missed the Solar and LuniSolar calenders of India

[@ب_ب-ج4ك]

Nobody gives a sh*t.

[@JUSJAK]

nice vid man, happy new year too

[@DTL9164]

You forgot North Korea and Ethiopia

[@subraxas]

:-D :-D

[@retf8977]

What I certainly know about the Ethiopian calendar is that it is just the Coptic calendar with different names. The name change happened when the Ethiopian church split from the coptic church, the coptic calendar was made to determine the months of farming and harvesting, and it is still used in Egypt to this day but rarely. Idk about whether Ethiopians use it or no, though.

[@ikanmasin]

Didn't know calenders going to ruin my sleep.

[@AverytheCubanAmerican]

Saparmurat Niyazov (Turkmenbashi) renamed the months in the Turkmen calendar to Turkmen symbols like Baydak (flag) and Oguz (Oguz Khan). He even named months after himself and his mother.

[@subraxas]

:-D :-D

[@alchin9]

The day in which the leap month happened in the Chinese Lunisolar Calendar: May 23, 2020, was also the day when many Muslims celebrated the Festival of Breaking the Fast or Eid al-Fitr when Ramadan ended.

[@alchin9]

9:54: "captions.exe has stopped working."

[@irnamax9]

It seems us Alaskans are really confused. Long days in summer & extremely short days in winter.

[@deey5094]

The Indian calendar seems to have a good amount of similarities with the Chinese and Hebrew calendars. But then again there apparently are more than one traditional calendar systems that's followed in India.

[@华夏蒲公英]

Westerners only look at the sun, and Arabs only look at the moon. The Chinese calendar is based on the sun and moon.

[@booksanimeenthusiast3802]

@@华夏蒲公英 India also had both solar and lunar calendar

[@华夏蒲公英]

@@booksanimeenthusiast3802 but, the Indian calendar does not start every month with a new moon, nor does it mean that every month 15 is a full moon.

[@anshul6168]

@@华夏蒲公英 Indian calendar months start with a full moon and a no moon (Amavasya falls in the middle) . It's just same thing..

[@DacLMK]

In my country we still use the Julian calendar for religious purposes. For example we celebrate Christmas on 7th of January instead of 25th of December and we celebrate old new year on 14th of January.

[@katiemooree]

Would like to mention that in my whole life I thought I was born in the year of the monkey, but I realized, watching this video, that I’m really the year of the goat. I literally lost my mind and I’m honestly not even surprised cause I never related to the monkey. Even though it’s the most disliked one, I’m in awe.

[@华夏蒲公英]

Westerners only look at the sun, and Arabs only look at the moon. The Chinese calendar is based on the sun and moon.

[@pr1mus-1]

Why do we need months tbh? Cant we just use weeks instead, which are way more useful... there are 365 days in a year and 52 weeks + 1 day, so we could have 52 weeks and the last week will be 8 days long for new year... the date system could work like this: Thursday/Week 5/ 2022, and each year could start with a sunday...

[@metal123498]

One correction: Y2K was an issue with computers, not because there was some cosmic significance to that date but because programs at the time had issue with switching over to the 21st century as the programmers who made those programs hadn't thought of that issue when they made those program in the '90s. The only reason nothing of note happened like the way the doomsayers were saying was going to happen is because before new year's of 2000 a ton of programmers knuckeled down and fixed all those issues so the whole economy didn't grind to a halt.

[@umairjibran7]

0-19 hmm, that's where programmers got idea for indices

[@charge8039]

Both of my parents are dragons. SO they gave birth to a Monkey and a rat.

[@squirrel_friend9829]

I was literally hoping for a new WonderWhy video today! Praise the WonderWhy gods🙏🏼🙌🏼

[@poshyplayz]

Imagine being born on the 30th of February 😭😭😫

[@agnesemoca8845]

Me: I'm a dragon (sereously) China:You're a VIP!!!!!!!!

[@PiccadillyBlue]

Weeeeell, Y2K wasn't *entirely* without cause for panic. The infamous "Y2K" bug was a real thing that software engineers spent millions of man-hours collectively resolving around the world. See, back in the 1900's, the "Year" field was generally designated a two digit number, i.e. 97 or 84. This means that, when the year 2000 rolled around, those numbers would have rolled back to 00, and with the software still assuming the 1900's, lots of records would have been corrupted, resulting in massive problems such as entire generations of children suddenly aging out of vaccination programs. Luckily, almost every mission-critical software was patched ahead of time, with some few issues occurring, such as one particularly unfortunate man receiving an invoice to the tune of $30,000 for a video rental that was 100 years overdue.

[@mina86]

Right, and that one unfortunate man simply called them up and got the invoice cancelled. I’m still not convinced that Y2K wasn’t overblown.

[@IloveRumania]

There's another version of that.

[@theyoshi202]

@mina86 Well, it *was* overblown, but ironically all the awareness is what made it underwhelming. Practically everyone was aware of it and implemented simple solutions before it became an issue.

[@PiccadillyBlue]

@@mina86 It was sold to the public as some kind of world ending time bomb that would cause the end of civilization, so in that sense yeah, it was overblown. But to anyone who worked on software at the time, it was a huge deal. They were calling up people from retirement homes because they worked on COBOL systems in the 60s that hospitals and government agencies still used at the time. Offices around the world were packed full of engineers as the clock approached midnight, all hands on deck ready to resolve any number of unforseen consequences. Basically, a lot of people worked VERY HARD to make sure it wasn't a big deal.

[@sulaimaanahmad]

i used the georgian calendar for secular needs, but back home and among my community, here in america, the hijri calendar is the official, just as back in my ancestral home. by the hijri calendar the date is; يـوم ااـثـلاثـاء ١٠ جـمـادى الـثـانــي ١٤٤١ (tuesday 10 jumaada althaanee 1441) despite how it may look to some, i was born and raised in america

[@toh786]

And yet, you have a name written in Arabic: Suleiman Ahmed?

[@sulaimaanahmad]

toh786 yes...i was raised to assimilate but only to a certain extent. i still speak my tribal language, and maintain our religious traditions. what's wrong with not fully assimilating? 🤔

[@toh786]

@@sulaimaanahmad Nothing wrong with that, brother! May Allah bless you and give you Jannat :)

[@sulaimaanahmad]

@@toh786 may allah ﷻ grant us both jannah, اللـهـم آمين

[@2001kraft]

Imagine being born on February 30th in Sweden and never celebrating your birthday ever again

[@MaxTheCat-eh5ts]

Max Kraft That’s a big oof

[@fluviusOptio]

I doubt that there was a baby born on February 30th in Sweden(or at least in Finland which was part of sweden) because it was during the Great Northern War. But still it would be very fun to be born on 30th of February

[@2001kraft]

HistoryFin 123 extremely UNfun rather :((

[@fluviusOptio]

@@2001kraft Luckily it was in the 1700s when people maybe didn't even know what day it was

[@elvir182]

HistoryFin 123 um why TF wouldn’t there a baby be born IN AN ENTIRE COUNTRY

[@LucasFavaro]

Hebrews: "we have the most complicated calendar in the world." Mayans: "hold my beer."

[@hammadthegreat]

indian calender vikram samvat and saka samvat are probably one of the oldest continuously used in the world, completely omitted from this video which is surprising. chinese and gregorian are not really tht old calenders

[@nagassv5526]

I think you should make series talking about each calendar of the world

[@DaDARKPass]

Cmon! You didn't talk about the Iranian calendar, the most accurate solar calendar in existence.

[@seanvasquez523]

Yeah that's another really good calendar to use as well. What year is it in that calendar though?

[@TheBlueC0re]

@@seanvasquez523 It's 1399

[@seanvasquez523]

@@TheBlueC0re, In what era in that calendar exactly?

[@sobhanshane7010]

@@seanvasquez523 it's 21 mehr 1400 now

[@laxmipandey122]

I was waiting for u to mention about calender from NEPAL as well🥺. We follow Bikram Sambhat (B.S.) calander. Now, its 2021 A.D. according to Gregorian calendar. Where as its 2078 B.S. according to Bikram Sambhat calander.😊

[@jumbomuffin1316]

It’s basically Hindu calendar.

[@hemrajpanday2173]

You missed the Nepalese calendar it’s nearly 2077 there.

[@alphagamer9505]

the assyrian calender is in 77xx more or less

[@swatigupta8173]

Thats 'hindu' calender, vikram samvat, which originated in Bharat🇮🇳, so you cant call it Nepalese🇳🇵

[@swatigupta8173]

@hrishavgl shak samvaat is Indian nation calender

[@swatigupta8173]

@hrishavgl can you tell me the names of Nepalese Months?

[@swatigupta8173]

@hrishavgl names are almost same, but we call the 6th month ashwin

[@rakeshr160]

Please make video on Indian / Hindu calendar!