What Year is it? The World’s Different Calendars and Years

Time is more subjective than you think

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“Don’t just count your years, make your years count.” — George Meredith

Time is a wonderful thing. Some people don’t think it exists. We know the theory of relativity challenged a lot of our preconceptions about the idea, too. The fact is, time for the most part in our silly little simian brains is a construct, a measurement of our surroundings.

And since we are human, after all, the measurements that go into our time-based traditional calendars tend to be a little off, too.

While most countries today follow the Gregorian calendar, you might be surprised to find out that many places around the world don’t!

It begs the question, what year is it according to the world’s various calendars?

Let’s begin with a bit of history.

What time is it? The Julian calendar

The story starts with a famous little tyrant many of us are familiar with: Julius Caesar. Possibly named after the amazing chicken salad dressing, a few years before his timely death he had the idea:

“What if I renamed time itself?”