The World of Non-Gregorian Calendars: What Day Is It, Really?

Ridiculous History

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History, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 7 August 2025

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

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.

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0:00.0	Ridiculous History is a production of IHeart Radio. Welcome back to the show, fellow ridiculous historians.
0:29.3	Thank you, as always so much for tuning in.
0:32.3	Let's hear for our super producer, Mr. Max Williams.
0:35.7	Who, who, hoo.
0:36.7	Haza, ha, ha, ha, ha. Uh-huh. Yeah, zoom, zoom. Zoom, zoom. That's Mr. Max Williams. Who, who? Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha.
0:37.7	Uh-huh.
0:38.8	Yeah, zoom, zoom, zoom.
0:40.4	That's Mr. Noel Brown.
0:41.8	They call me Ben Bowlin around this neck of the global woods.
0:46.1	Indeed, they do.
0:47.9	And boy, oh, boy, do we have a bit of a follow-up for you today?
0:52.4	Also, from the mighty mental coffers of our research associate extraordinaire,
0:58.7	Jeff the G-Train Bartlett, Jeff the G-sauce, G-Love and special train sauce.
1:04.9	What is it?
1:05.6	G-G unit.
1:07.1	Factor G.
1:08.0	Is what Jeff has chosen as his hallowed ridiculous history code.
1:13.7	I'm sorry, I'm making a bit out of it.
1:15.3	Oh, it's fantastic.
1:17.1	We love a good nickname.
1:18.4	Remember G Unit? Wasn't that 50 cents crew?
1:21.2	Grigorian?
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