The Longest Year in Human History (46 B.C.E.)

Why HN readers recommended it

Recommended as an entertaining and well-explained account of why our calendar looks the way it does.

This is a summary from the source dataset, not an endorsement by Hacker News or the video creator.

Video & recommendation details

Creator / channel

Historia Civilis

Topic

roman calendar reform

Format

explainer

Level

general

HN recommenders in dataset

4

HN mentions in dataset

5

Recommendation years in dataset

2021–2024

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From the original HN conversations

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• The Longest Year in Human History (46 B.C.E.) - [VIDEO] gets into the "why the year we have is designed the way it is" ... though it takes 22 minutes to get to that part. It wasn't really better as the 30 * 12 + …

• I didn't appreciate until recently that the calendar we live by today was personally designed by Julius Caesar. Like not by some forgotten technocrats incidentally during his time, but Julius Caesar himself as a subject matter expert, as a side-project. With consultation, certainly, but by …

• Ha, a proof that by watching YouTube videos you learn something. This was covered by one of my favorite series on YouTube. Here is the particular video: [VIDEO]