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by NoZebra120vClip 1126 days ago
Just imagine the state of the world in 1582, and the amount of cooperation, agreement, and coordination that it took to implement the Gregorian Calendar, which was an incremental iteration of the Julian one. Take the chaos and confusion created by that (and rippling into present times) and multiply it by ten or so, and then you may perhaps approach what it'd be like to change calendars today.