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a fragile human truce with time, scribbled over and ignored anyway

october heistIn 1582, ten days vanished overnight to fix the calendar
french resetRevolutionaries tried ten-day weeks; nobody wanted fewer Sundays
naming rightsJuly and August honor two Roman egos forever
leap mathYears divisible by 100 skip leap day, unless by 400
drift problemEarth's orbit isn't a clean 365, so we improvise
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