For something that's meant to lend order to our lives, the modern Western calendar has a messy history. The mess, in part, comes about because of the difficulty of co-ordinating the orbits of ...

The Jesuits reformed the Western calendar. Then they attempted to do the same in China. Ask most Christians the date of the next Easter and they’re likely to Google it. Though highly associated with ...

Everywhere in Europe, rituals to mark the winter solstice have long been focused on the Christian narrative of the birth of Jesus. Yet in the ancient Julian calendar, which has gradually been falling ...

TOKYO -- Foreign Minister Taro Kono said that he would thoroughly implement the use of Western calendar years in diplomatic documents at a press conference on the afternoon of April 2. But he also ...

TOKYO -- Even as globalization pushes Japan toward the Western calendar, many Japanese still support the parallel use of Imperial eras as they have come to define the periods people have lived in.