Ridiculous History
Ridiculous History
iHeartPodcasts
The World of Non-Gregorian Calendars: What Day Is It, Really?
39 minutes Posted Aug 7, 2025 at 7:27 pm.
0:00
39:29
Download MP3
Show notes

Human civilization is far from perfect. Still, it's pretty cool humanity overall agreed on how to measure time (for now). In today's follow-up to an earlier exploration of the Gregorian calendar, Ben, Noel and Max admire the many alternative, non-Gregorian calendars with their own ancient provenance, all of which exist in the modern day. Or modern night? Spoiler, a ton of these are based on the passage of the moon.

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.