The Western world celebrates New Year's Day on the first of January, though that was not always the case, and it took at least two major calendrical reforms in as many millennia to cement Jan. 1 as ...

Could you imagine watching the ball in Times Square drop around March? You might have been, had much of the Western world not adopted the modern calendar that begins each year on Jan. 1. The oldest ...

In the SR’s “Looking Ahead” of Wednesday, 27 May, (“June is just around the corner”), the anonymous writer claims that it is “the Julian calendar that we use to this day.” This is just — by 432 years ...

Christmas and New Year is a time when many Orthodox Christians who follow the Julian (old) calendar wonder why they do so; or rather, those who follow the Gregorian (new) calendar wonder why the old ...

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 ...

With calendar-like predictability, 4 October marks the 434th anniversary of the introduction of the Gregorian calendar. The happy occasion has been celebrated with the release of a date-themed Google ...

Tesco has prompted confusion after a product was labelled with an expiry date according to the rarely-used Julian calendar. The supermarket’s unusual labelling choice came to light on Sunday after ...