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I average out the spring and fall changes and just set my clocks 39 minutes ahead year-round.

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[-] lugal@sopuli.xyz 1 points 2 years ago

I'd like to give some context here: the julian calendar is the older one that doesn't take into account that leap years are more complicated that just every fourth year. It was still a good idea to standardize the calendar. Before that, the months were shorter and the Senate decided were to put arbitrary days to make it fit

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