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@dannyunixanalyst90187 жыл бұрын
Q: What is a leap year? A: The sun's going to kill us all.
@mertoj15363 жыл бұрын
The surface is now safe and everything is beautiful, come out and see the SUN...
@dimanyak3733 жыл бұрын
The sun is a deadly lazer
@davidbrodecki1543 жыл бұрын
Ummm
@millyli9123 жыл бұрын
@@dimanyak373 I love this dude
@sudiptaranade22162 жыл бұрын
@@dimanyak373 not anymore there is a blanket
@graham_lively17325 жыл бұрын
It would be cool to have the seasons flip - your grandparents might be like "back in my day we celebrated Christmas in the winter!"
@drakebalzer20982 жыл бұрын
Grandpartents would probably be dead too
@drodrig12 жыл бұрын
So just the other hemisphere?
@lucasm.t.38232 жыл бұрын
This is actually happening right now! I’m about to spend my Christmas with a cold beer in my hand and my feet on the warm sand of the beach. Just come to the south hemisphere!
@gaussianvector20932 жыл бұрын
@@lucasm.t.3823 Have a drink for me friend down under. The suggestion of not attaching dates to celestial movement would be fine, but would've sounded crazy a generation or two ago.
@aeoe6652 жыл бұрын
Answer is no because the earths axis will change because in winter the earth is closer to the sun it will be reversed
@SkyWKing10 жыл бұрын
I proposed a leap year system in ninth grade that can resolve all the rounding errors in 86,400 years...until my geography teacher told me the length of a day is not consistent.
@nitrogamer82223 жыл бұрын
What was your idea
@blackfalcon13243 жыл бұрын
@@vinaylalwani i thought geology was a science class
@Nathan-ys9vk3 жыл бұрын
I'm in ninth grade and what kind of ninth grade are you in? The supper elite kids full of 300 iq people?
@johnthoppil73083 жыл бұрын
@@blackfalcon1324 geology and geography are different things
@ashutoshsamantaray25723 жыл бұрын
@@johnthoppil7308 for a 9th grader geology falls inside the category of geography. Same for any high schooler
@dylanforgaming988 жыл бұрын
I Think every 8000 years it should be a double leap year.
@All3me18 жыл бұрын
perfect 😂😂 love it
@maxv73236 жыл бұрын
you mean it should be a leap year since 8000 can be divided by 4.
@bryanlin9826 жыл бұрын
but 8000 can be divided by 400 so it is a leap year
@JonnySpec6 жыл бұрын
I guess depending on which way around the error is, years divisible by 8000 should either be double leap years (with 30 days in February?) or not leap years at all? But either way, people will cross that bridge in about 6000 years
@nolansprojects28406 жыл бұрын
Yea! When I legally turn 8000 I want my leap year age to be ~2000! Lol
@Mr_Waffle.10 жыл бұрын
Love the Australian christmas reference. People from the northern hemisphere are always amazed when I tell them christmas day is often celebrated out in the backyard with a BBQ and all the family around the pool/down the beach!
@aarons.391410 жыл бұрын
Same here.
@coconutter2410 жыл бұрын
Fuck yeah straya ahah! :D
@wurm663510 жыл бұрын
uhm the same thing applies to florida?
@Jordan_Dossou6 жыл бұрын
MrWafu really? That's crazy!
@heronimousbrapson8635 жыл бұрын
MrWafu IF we did that in Canada, we'd freeze in the dark.
@coweatsman8 жыл бұрын
"Xmas celebrations in summer". Welcome to the Southern hemisphere.
@kalani55598 жыл бұрын
Why does everything have to be upside down here? I don't like summer! I could cook an egg on a piece of tin I left outside. And at Christmas? Gah. Heat and hot food don't go well.
@a006delta7 жыл бұрын
"It's crazy, (points at Australia*)"
@eparadoxigm96487 жыл бұрын
+Kalani Giddey A cast iron skillet works better. Seriously, try it, leave the skillet out for a couple hours before hand, then right at the hottest part of the day, drop an egg in it. It works rather well.
@kalani55597 жыл бұрын
+AFGNCAAP Paradigm sure does. But it's more fun on a piece of tin.
@kalani55597 жыл бұрын
We even have a 5th season down here in Melbourne called "fuck you!" Where the weather does whatever it wants, whenever it wants. I take my jacket off and put it back on about 6 times a day
@RussellNelson8 жыл бұрын
And then there's leap seconds.
@ThePCguy178 жыл бұрын
+Russell Nelson He goes over the cause, but didn't mention them. Brain fry, perhaps.
@TheKYLEdavid8 жыл бұрын
+ThePCguy17 Well to be fair, he said in one of his Q&A videos that he has cancelled a bunch of videos that he deemed "too boring". I would imagine that as this video was in February 2012, he was planning a Leap Second video for June 2012, but ended up cancelling it altogether because one extra second isn't all that interesting, while a whole extra day is interesting.
@ThePCguy178 жыл бұрын
TheKyleDavid Yeah, that's also possible, isn't it?
@trien303 жыл бұрын
Gregorian calendar is more accurate than the Julian calendar but not more accurate than the Hebrew calendar or the Chinese calendar. Out of these only the Chinese one is a true lunisolar calendar but I‘d say it still needs a little something to make it a lot more accurate. The worst calendar is actually the Muslim calendar where there are no leap [intercalary (from Latin intercalārius meaning "to insert" which the definition is based on the ancient Greek word εμβολισμος.) or embolismic [from French embolismique (Huh?! This is either a joke or a mistranslation.) via Greek εμβολισμος, "embolismos" from εμβολλειν, "embollein" meaning "to insert": β was a /b/ sound as in "boy" in ancient Greek, which is a /v/ sound as in "voice" in Modern Greek. σ is the "regular sigma" which is placed in the beginning or middle of words; ς is the "final sigma" which is only used at the end of a word instead of σ in Greek.)] days or leap months to make up the discrepancy in relation between the solar and lunar calendars and no way to add other things to sync the seasons.
@bencomeau63303 жыл бұрын
Years! Seconds are just 11:60 AM/PM for 1 second.
@LFTRnow3 ай бұрын
Hello from 2024 (leap year) See you all again in 2028!
@AlyssaBlack1312 жыл бұрын
I just need to share that because of this video, I have been able to explain to the elementary kids I work with how leap year works, and they were actually interested. Thank you for making such amazing and educational videos that are so accessible.
@freddiealcala29869 жыл бұрын
I love this format. Trivia in small packets. Easy to digest and make you look forward to the next.
@eparadoxigm96487 жыл бұрын
The universe is such a troll.
@user-iq8xl8rk8q6 жыл бұрын
AFGNCAAP Paradigm shrekted
@oni7414 жыл бұрын
@Quantum Paradoxigm There is no Universe, but a Multiverse.
@morthostalisint17204 жыл бұрын
@@oni741 A multiverse is a collection of universes. Multiverse means multiples "verses" (Basically just a big place with things) and a universe means one"verse" so having a multiverse necessitates multiple universes.
@oni7414 жыл бұрын
@@morthostalisint1720 There was no need for your "lesson" about the difference between universe 'n multiverse.. Everybody understands it with a jot of brains! However, thanks for your clarification. ;)
@oni7413 жыл бұрын
@@presidentialcampaignmusic1018 Exactly! I knew what he'd answer. I'm kinda a psychic lol
@spongebobsucks1210 жыл бұрын
Haha future kids, have fun dealing with you fiery uavoidable doom!!! We'll be long dead! Love -Generation of 2010-2019
@samuelmikulasko6 жыл бұрын
Guy Fiery lives right now soooo
@randompesron83636 жыл бұрын
Actually we are already getting close to reaching Mars, so in less than 1,000 years, we'll have most likely more than just our solar system
@_simon.s_5 жыл бұрын
Yeah, and only the 1% of the world can go to Mars cause we're not that rich!
@soycoter5 жыл бұрын
*it's about to be 2019*
@drone_better77575 жыл бұрын
We're approaching 2019. We live in a technologically advanced civilisation with iPhone XSs, as opposed to your puny iPhone 6s.
@svommams56610 жыл бұрын
What's beautiful about this is that when the pattern repeats after 400 years, there has been 365*400+97 days, which is divisible by 7, so even the the weekdays will be the same as they were 400 years prior.
@sunriselg10 жыл бұрын
Do you know the the doomsday method of calculating the weekdays?
@heronimousbrapson8635 жыл бұрын
svommams566 In the Julian calendar, you had to wait 700 years for the same result, I believe.
@meta043 жыл бұрын
Tubmaster 5000: well, actually 28, but the first multiple thereof that's a century is 700
@MrTylerNicole12 жыл бұрын
You’re on the right track. But in 2020, February 29 was on a Saturday, so will the years 2048 and 2076. I wouldn’t say it repeats every 400 years. It’s every 28 years unless you cross over a century not divisible by 400. In my prior example, the years 2048, 2076, 2116, 2144, 2172, and 2212 will be the same calendar.
@eduardoxenofonte40042 жыл бұрын
@@heronimousbrapson863 in the julian calendar it was only 28 years
@inkyscrolls51937 жыл бұрын
1:19 Luna is best Princess. 2:09 Huzzah! The fun has been doubled.
@SacsachCCABP4 жыл бұрын
IKR I just commented i know MY LITTLE PONY
@praritgupta54182 жыл бұрын
Pls tell me the reference I played the video at lowest speed and still didn't saw anything
@scarletpachyderm2 жыл бұрын
@@SacsachCCABP i dont see anything either but people are saying mlp so its probably a reference to luna, whos the moon pony iirc
@praritgupta54182 жыл бұрын
@@scarletpachyderm I understand that too
@QuilloManar9 жыл бұрын
Hmm... He's talking about yearly math... He made a Starcraft reference at 0:36... He used some oddly familiar symbols at 1:20... And he made a Warcraft reference at 3:04... CGP... Are you... Are you a... a- Nerd‽
@xuapril329 жыл бұрын
I apologize for replying to a comment you've probably already forgotten about, but that interrobang at the end literally just made my day. And your profile picture. Good day to you, fine sir :)
@QuilloManar9 жыл бұрын
I don't forget about comments! :3 Thanks for the compliment!
@links2129 жыл бұрын
***** "Some oddly familiar symbols" haha :P also creeper at 1:41 and annotation at 2:11 and probably so many other hidden things
@Megacooltommydee9 жыл бұрын
DoLoyalty Damn you, CGP! You made me click on a pony video! Sarcasam aside, that was a good one, though.
@NDOhioan9 жыл бұрын
***** No, that's ridiculous! Next thing you know, you'll be saying that bullfrogs aren't part bull.
@ThomasMoulden10 жыл бұрын
1:40 Creeper in the back of the car.
@kingxdedede732710 жыл бұрын
nice spot!
@aidankeys85346 жыл бұрын
Thomas Moulden your right didn't even notice it
@kiwimapper57435 жыл бұрын
didnt notice that!
@dhruvsoni46575 жыл бұрын
Didn’t notice that ,,,
@Amelia-li5of4 жыл бұрын
......
@chib112 жыл бұрын
CGP Grey, why are you the best at explaining things I never knew I was interested in? You're awesome :)
@Megacooltommydee9 жыл бұрын
While trying to pause the video when the word "Huzzah!" was on the screen, I discovered a neat little Easter Egg. Now I will be forever stuck with pony videos clogging up my recommended videos.
@Megacooltommydee9 жыл бұрын
***** That was a joke. I know how to delete videos from my watch history.
@guardingdark28609 жыл бұрын
I think I'm missing something. What easter egg?
@Megacooltommydee8 жыл бұрын
Bel-Shamharoth Read the rest of the comments. Sorry for the 2 month late response.
@guardingdark28608 жыл бұрын
+Tommy Dee I got it. I normally watch with annotations off so that's why I didn't see it.
@BloodSprite-tan8 жыл бұрын
+Tommy Dee i don't even have my history turned on what?
@metromortem94494 жыл бұрын
Thanks, youtube, for recommending this on March 1st, 2020.
@Netsmile7 жыл бұрын
Thumbs up for the Warcraft 3 Abomination reference at 3:04
@marshallcommand17477 жыл бұрын
I saw that :D
@excinic7 жыл бұрын
Oh i saw it as pudge from dota lol
@AlexWellbelove10 жыл бұрын
Anyone notice there s a creeper hidden in most of the photos? Like at 1:34 he's in the back of the black car :)
“Christmas will be taking place in summer” Southern Hemisphere:
@FewVidsJustComments3 жыл бұрын
or phineas and ferb's world lol
@SacsachCCABP Жыл бұрын
@@FewVidsJustComments Doofenshmirtz hit this reply with a delay-inator and made the reply a year late.
@FewVidsJustComments Жыл бұрын
@@SacsachCCABP ah, I see you are a fan of Phineas and Ferb as well. glad to see im not the only one who still likes it even years after it ended.
@JordanBeagle3 ай бұрын
Wow, old cgp grey videos hit different
@kipofthemany22136 жыл бұрын
"Unless we have a decently funded space program, hint, hint!" OMG YES! Thanks grey!
@garrysmith10292 жыл бұрын
Why not privatize
@theBarefoot12 жыл бұрын
I've always been a fan of the 28-day month, 13-month per year calendar, with a 5 (or 6 for leap year) day new-year's holiday. This calendar also moves the beginning of the year back where it should be, the Vernal Equinox.
@user-ju5rt6ph1o4 жыл бұрын
Today is Feb 29, 2020. I'll be back in 2024 to see how old my comment is. 1 year or 4 years.
@cristianandressanchezureta26663 жыл бұрын
I want to see that happen so don't mind me, just preparing :)
@ibrahimhasaan653 жыл бұрын
yEe
@Carbon_Crow3 жыл бұрын
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@niccolorichter14883 жыл бұрын
Iam Also waiting
@timar1443 жыл бұрын
My birthday is 29 February 1988
@oliviatkd97078 жыл бұрын
CGP Grey, you make my brain hurt, but your videos are always amazing, educational, and funny! Thank you for doing your research and making important videos entertaining. You're awesome!!!
@zstanojevic95744 жыл бұрын
Leap second could be sly solution for ironing out imperfections of calendar+random disturbances -- provided that its ɛ remains bellow say 1/4 of a second per year (or as low as possible). Milankovich (Milanković) presented his "reformed Julian calendar" in 1923 and it has such features. It's shame that no one mentions it in their thematic videos (neither M. Parker nor Vsauce).
@edcrfv09876510 жыл бұрын
0:58 here in south america chistmas IS on summer
@Riodashio10 жыл бұрын
Good on you for catching his joke.
@TheGreyDaisy12 жыл бұрын
Something as complicated as a leap year definitely needed an explanation! Thank you so much!
@moothecow69082 жыл бұрын
You think secular leap years are complicated, look at Jewish leap years, just a whole extra month added at what seems like random intervals
@uroupa2 жыл бұрын
we all know the python course 😂
@bajanzhere10 жыл бұрын
I really like this video, CGPGrey is wonderful at what he does. :) But this is definitely one of my favorites.
@Ghekkoo12 жыл бұрын
I love your videos, there absolutely great. I was wondering tho, if you could make a video explaining this whole Kony 2012 thing. I'm sure it would be quite helpful!
@9adam43 жыл бұрын
For my D&D game we use a lunisolar calendar that always starts the month over on the first day of the full moon, and the year starts over on the first full moon following the winter solstice.
@tymothylim65503 жыл бұрын
Thank you very much for this video! It was very informative and clear for me!
@AkaiAzul6 жыл бұрын
2:50 I see what you did there.
@dtmtung11 жыл бұрын
Your constant Starcraft and MLP references make me smile like a loon every time. Thanks for making my day.
@rep16009 жыл бұрын
I love how you put a picture of Australia in the background when you said Christmas celebrations in the summer would be crazy.... But I guess some people don't know the temperature it is over here sometimes XD
@JacobBongers Жыл бұрын
Potato
@rep1600 Жыл бұрын
@@JacobBongers Potato
@AlexVoxel6 жыл бұрын
A nice and entertaining explanation, thank you Grey!
@stylis6669 жыл бұрын
Thanks for making mere facts comprehensable and fun!
@Sinnistering11 жыл бұрын
Seeing the Warcraft III abomination in the corner = CGPGrey being my new favorite channel. Random bits of information that's helpful, still able to be entertaining, and able to explain it without being too over-complicated or simplified.
@annabellecmv171010 жыл бұрын
I love how Grey makes this stuff interesting
@judestefanik92924 жыл бұрын
this video was once again suggested to me, happy 2020!!!!
@eatnplaytoday Жыл бұрын
I had a client once whose birthday was on february 29th. Rare bird
@Adventurer325 жыл бұрын
Message of this not quite 4 minute long video: Donate to NASA to avoid your unavoidable fiery doom.
@BradyPostma3 жыл бұрын
Or, rather, our distant descendants' unavoidable doom. Even if humanity or earth life or the machines into which our descendants upload their brains survive billions of years into our future, there's no way we personally are going to.
@iminmisery4373 жыл бұрын
As a half brit I'm going to do what my ancestors do: just let it be your descendants problem
@IONindustries6279 жыл бұрын
Did he just make a My Little Pony reference at 1:19?
@MysteryHendrik8 жыл бұрын
Yes, he did. And at 1:33, there’s a creeper in the background car. This video is full of references.
@raetekusu18 жыл бұрын
+John Sheppard On his article about the problem with television news, one of his subheaders is "Dear Princess Celestia, I didn't learn anything!"
@IONindustries6278 жыл бұрын
Princess Molestia Thank you Molly
@SacsachCCABP4 жыл бұрын
Yes My little pony I use to wonder what friendship was my little pony, until you all shared it’s magic with ME
@frysauce90003 жыл бұрын
@@iykury ok
@fireblade696 Жыл бұрын
My birthday being on leap day is so confusing
@robbert-janmerk67839 жыл бұрын
Loved the Crash Course History link! :)
@Pyrodiac3 жыл бұрын
0:36 Nice StarCraft reference.
@NotebookMovies11 жыл бұрын
amazing!!!
@bawicz02 жыл бұрын
yeah!
@aarushighosh2279 Жыл бұрын
omgosh, we had to design a programme in c++ in class to identify leap years and I never understood why one of the requirements was that the year should be divisible by 400 and our teacher wasn't of much help either. Thanks to you I finally understood now!
@ilinaeternity10 жыл бұрын
Once again, a fantastic video.
@R4th0le9 жыл бұрын
1:19 Lovin' the reference.
@09_CRAZY2 жыл бұрын
The fact that this was uploaded on Feb. 28th and not Feb 29th, although the upload year was leap year.
@_GrumpyBear_2 жыл бұрын
Thanks a lot for the link Angela Yu, now I am distracted and watching this guy's other videos. -_-
@swarmsnipingnuke27518 жыл бұрын
Beautiful explanation, lovin it mate.
@super55555mario4 жыл бұрын
The day has finally come once again. Happy Leap Day everyone!
@techboy67884 жыл бұрын
Sure Has!
@huuua2 Жыл бұрын
Old Grey is still "cool" Grey in my book! These "tiny nugget of info" videos are awesome! 🤩
@kidsentertainmentgames94042 жыл бұрын
Thanks sir for clearing my doubts 🔥🔥🔥❤️❤️❤️
@voiddragon8233 Жыл бұрын
currently in a never ending loop between minute physics video and cgp greys video. Its what they would have wanted
@Phazon8058MS10 жыл бұрын
AGRICULTURAL REVOLUTION ON CRASH COURSE! HAHA! I have no clue why I find that so exciting.
@jamesnixon51664 жыл бұрын
Saturday February 29th, 2020, good Leap Day to everyone.
@RohitKumar-lv1vi2 жыл бұрын
Awesome Explanation !
@lizzyb.80094 жыл бұрын
"that refuses to be divided nicely" except by 13 with just a solitary New Year's Day left over! i realize that this is almost never going to happen now because of how incredibly disruptive it would be to the everything, but if i had the opportunity to design the calendar system from scratch, i'd make it thirteen 28-day months with a monthless New Year's and Leap Day tacked on at the end/beginning. you could even keep seven-day weeks and days would land on the exact same dates every month. while having the New Year's and Leap Days also be "dayless" would certainly be in keeping with the tidiness of the system (so that you could reuse the exact same calendar every single year), i can also see the appeal of the days getting offset by 1 each year just for a bit of variety. with the inclusion of the Leap Year day, now i kinda want to crunch the numbers now to see how long before days land on the same date again in this system... or how long the whole cycle takes to repeat...
@Clairehouse3210 жыл бұрын
Luna and Celestia Sun and Moon at 1:20 ???
@MrKtluhu10 жыл бұрын
True.
@links21210 жыл бұрын
Also, clicking "Huzzah" at 2:10...
@Megacooltommydee6 жыл бұрын
Eeyup.
@moadot7204 жыл бұрын
Same! XD
@indoorda3 жыл бұрын
The ballerina on the truck explanation is the most elegant I've ever seen.
@edwardnygma853310 жыл бұрын
I never knew it was all this complicated 0_o I love you CGP Grey.
@leo-hao2 жыл бұрын
Love the warcraft easter eggs and references.
@brfisher11238 жыл бұрын
I can't believe another leap year (2016) is already here! Was the last leap year (2012) already 4 years ago?
@MichaelSHartman6 жыл бұрын
Brandon Fisher Leap years coincide with campaign years giving us an additional day to be miserable, except in 2000 when we were miserable for four years.
@oni7414 жыл бұрын
@Sean Hiseman The Leap Years are always doomed. 😉
@doyoungod82123 жыл бұрын
euewheuef it 2020 now
@brfisher11233 жыл бұрын
@@doyoungod8212 True, 2020 now makes 2016 4 years ago and 2012 8 years ago.
@SparkySywer10 жыл бұрын
When we get the technology we should displace mass to make the length of the year precisely 364 days. 364 is divisible by 7, and 28, so division of dates won't be an issue. And since I said precisely, if we maintain this the seasons will never drift.
@CommieJesus10 жыл бұрын
And what are we gonna do with drifting days? Redefine hour or get some funny looking watches?
@SparkySywer10 жыл бұрын
Commie Jesus Redefine the hour.
@S2Tubes10 жыл бұрын
Let's hope no one smart enough to come up with the technology is stupid enough to try and use it.
@SparkySywer10 жыл бұрын
Blood Angel What's wrong with this? I think it's a good idea to do.
@General12th9 жыл бұрын
xkcd's What If series covered this question pretty thoroughly here: what-if.xkcd.com/26/ Suffice it to say, speeding up the rotation of the Earth by even a single millisecond would take hundreds of massive asteroids and probably wipe out humanity. Speeding up the Earth by an entire day would probably destroy the entire crust unless we take a couple million years to finish. Either way, the extinction of humanity probably isn't worth it.
@seanhartnett797 жыл бұрын
+ CGP Grey It is glad that we corrected that problem. Can you do a video on other calendars?
@fullerdb8 жыл бұрын
Over here south of the equator Christmas *is* in the summer. Crazy, isn't it?
@KTChamberlain9 жыл бұрын
When you say few hundred years the seasons would be flipped, just out of curiosity, how many hundred years would that be?
@KTChamberlain9 жыл бұрын
***** thank you.
@puncheex29 жыл бұрын
***** A quarter of a day per year moves the seasons 182 days in about 780 years.
@TaiFerret8 жыл бұрын
+SoloNita Technically 0 AD doesn't exist. They hadn't invented zero yet.
@jyothsnakonathala29358 жыл бұрын
+KTChamberlain Earth's axis will complete a rotation in 26,000 years. It has already completed 13,000 years. Currenty, earth 's axis is pointing towards polaris star. After 13,000 years, one rotation of axis will be completed and earth's axis will be pointed towards Vega star and our seasons will be flipped.
@puncheex28 жыл бұрын
Not the"Earth's axis" but rather a "precession cycle". And what is your criteria for saying we're 13,000 years into a cycle?
@schmittelt10 жыл бұрын
Time is an illusion. Lunch time, doubly so.
@Jkisacky64 жыл бұрын
Happy Leap Year!
@AnkhArcRod7 жыл бұрын
Loved the warcraft abomination reference at 3:04!
@brijavpogi2 жыл бұрын
100 Days of Code challenge. Life if that's the reason you're here.
@Shadow0mori9 жыл бұрын
"1 2 skip a few 99 100!" -Yacko, Animaniacs
@vincent-ls9lz7 жыл бұрын
Christmas Celebrations in Summer! That would be crazy! Move to Australia mate
@Pr1est0fDoom6 жыл бұрын
3:05 "an abomination", nice Warcraft III reference in the bottom left corner!
@EmergentSea19 жыл бұрын
I love the tiny references, like the abomination from Warcraft 3 :D
@ducomors9 жыл бұрын
i literally just noticed that and was finding the comment on it
@evanbarrie46309 жыл бұрын
CREEEPER!
@evanbarrie46309 жыл бұрын
Evan Barrie at 1:41
@jackwright249510 жыл бұрын
The World Calendar was almost adopted after WWII but unfortunately lost due to social inertia. In this calendar *every quarter* of three months is identical, year after year, world without end. This is accomplished by inserting an extra day between weekdays every year and two on leap years. Four 91-day quarters add up to 364 days or exactly 52 weeks, and simply slipping in an extra World Day when needed keeps the calendar the same every year. Identical quarters also make it easier to compare business activity from one quarter to the next. There is a World Calendar association which thinks it owns this idea, as I found out when trying to suggest changes in some of the details, but humans just love to form their little empires, don't they? My biggest suggestion was to have the year start on the northern hemisphere solstice instead of ten days *after* the solstice, which it does now. My other suggestion was to count the months in a quarter by 30, 30 and 31 days instead of 31, 30 and 30. Why? Because then you could express a date by a simple three-digit number, the quarter number from 1 to 4 followed by the day number from 1 to 91, 92 (for December) or 93 in leap years. The months would be obvious as they would start on days 1, 31 and 61 every time, and so would the days of the week after a while. And figuring out days between dates would be trivial!
@TomHenryTography5 жыл бұрын
Thanks Grey for taking the time to fix your videos from the Annotation Obliteration
@abhisheklande13695 жыл бұрын
I knew this but had to watch to see the CGP grey view on this
@lilspirit62708 жыл бұрын
Tomorrow is leap day!
@markrobinson33068 жыл бұрын
+RainTeamTrain I am, still none the wiser, Happy Leap Year Day
@morezco8 жыл бұрын
Christmas in summer would be crazy. That's how we do it in Brazil! 😢 also no snow.
@frankmagana14088 жыл бұрын
Great time to watch
@TheShamansQuestion9 жыл бұрын
Hahaha I I loved this vid more and more as the jokes came. Love the GameBoy reference. It's good to get an explanation on this since I wrote something on facebook explaining how to work out the day from the date with some quick maths, and I had to find what I called the 400 year rule. I never knew why it was there.
@dasgregorian10 жыл бұрын
My question has always been: Why have 4 months with 31 days only to have a 28/29 day february? Why not take a day off two of those 31 day months and give them to february. Thus 2 months always have 31 days. 9 months always have 30 days, and february changes between the two. Instead of two completely different values.
@legoman704110 жыл бұрын
Because you still get the same leap year problem.. Also, its impractical to change so many people's birthmonths.
@duncanadelaide395910 жыл бұрын
While it would make sense to do something like this and many new calendar systems that rearrange months and weeks have been proposed, including some that would make a week either 5 or 10 days, everything is pretty much situated on the calendar we have now and everyone has pretty much decided that the amount of confusion involved in changing things like birthdates, anniversaries, and holidays (especially religious ones like weekly sabbaths) would be more difficult than simply having a weirdly numbered month in the late winter.
@Arkalius8010 жыл бұрын
Because the Romans were annoying. January and February were originally the last two months of the year (which is why February is the short month, and also why SEPTember, OCTober, NOVember, and DECember have names meaning 7, 8, 9, and 10 despite currently being the 9th, 10th, 11th, and 12th months). February also used to have 29 days (30 on leap years). However, when the month of Sextilus (which had 30 days) was renamed Augustus in honor of Caesar, it was decided that it couldn't have fewer days than the month named after Julius (which had 31) days, so they stole a day from Februarius and put it onto Augustus. This is also why you have two months in a row with 31 days.
@moothecow69082 жыл бұрын
Because that would require a bunch if countries agreeing on something
@victory44544 жыл бұрын
Leap day 2020 yay!
@3lit3Sp34k3rHy8rid10 жыл бұрын
I love the Warcraft 3 reference. You have to be old school to get that. Also, observant; being observant helps too. If you didn't catch it, 3:05 in the bottom left corner.
@HaifischDoktor9 жыл бұрын
3:05 god damn I loved that Abomination from WC3 you added in there? You played it before?
@whatyoulookinforlol4 жыл бұрын
Here In 2020 (Leap Year)
@oliviashaw80639 жыл бұрын
in Australia it is summer when it is Christmas. Some people have BBQ's on the beach wearing Christmas hats
@baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaam9 жыл бұрын
ye m8 notin' lik e 4ey degreyze dai' on ya beech wit ye crismus' hat
@pivotcat99 жыл бұрын
What?
@oliviashaw80639 жыл бұрын
let me try to translate: Yea mate. Nothing like a 40 degrees day the beach with your Christmas hat
@AJZulu9 жыл бұрын
BAM! LOL. Genius!
@WilliamThomsonn3 жыл бұрын
i love the this ol' hammer sounding vibe in the background music
@krzysztofkowalski77653 жыл бұрын
awesome, I've laughted, I've got taught, I will remember this to the end of my life!
@datkidcomedyshow56418 жыл бұрын
232 dislikes are from mathematicians
@danielperez317510 жыл бұрын
Has anyone noticed the creepers like at 1:36?!?!?
@asclepia0887 жыл бұрын
Right now I have 3 favorite science channels. You, Game Theory, and Film Theory. I know both theory channels are led by the same person, but it is still two separate sciency channels.
@jimpikles10 жыл бұрын
I clicked on the link over "Huzzah!" by accident when trying to pause the video. Glad I did.