If 2020 feels a bit long to you, blame it on the Leap Year.
Every four years, give or take a couple, we tack an extra day onto February. The Gregorian calendar is an accurate measurement of time, but according to Johns Hopkins professors Steve Hanke and Richard Conn Henry, it creates a whole host of other problems.Their solution? A new calendar that never changes, except for the years that have what Hanke calls Leap Weeks.
By 1582, when Pope Gregory XIII was at the helm of the Catholic Church, the calendar was essentially two weeks early. As a result, he eradicated 10 days from the month of October that year in order to more accurately correspond with the accurate calculation of a year's length. The changes eventually stuck: England began using the Gregorian calendar in 1752, per Britannica, while Japan adopted it in 1873 and the then-Soviet Union adjusted its calendar in 1918.Hanke Henry Permanent Calendar.
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