Science quiz: A millennia-old calendar system Premium
The Hindu
While the Julian calendar included a leap day once every four years, it was not the first calender to have such a system. For example, the Roman system that it replaced included a month called X once every two or three years. What is X? In Latin it means ‘work month’.
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