A very short history of the calendar we live by

.Our current calendar didn’t come from nature.

It came from power.

Early humans tracked time by the Moon and the seasons. That worked—until empires needed coordination.

The Romans standardized months to manage taxes, military campaigns, and civic order. Julius Caesar introduced the Julian calendar in 45 BCE to fix drift and keep the empire synchronized.

Centuries later, it was still drifting.

So in 1582, the Catholic Church adjusted it again, creating the Gregorian calendar—the one most of the world uses today. Ten days were simply erased to realign Easter and the equinox.

Later came time zones, invented for railroads.

Then the 40-hour workweek.

Then clocks everywhere.

But something was lost in the process.

We stopped keeping time by light, season, and rest—and started keeping it by schedules, productivity, and uniformity.

So when your body feels out of step with the calendar, it’s not broken.

It’s older than the system it’s living in.

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