Trivia question. First correct answer wins a gift. What was the longest year in recorded human history?

@Hanging2 I assume it was to get the correct start to the new Calendar which was known as the Julian Calendar...so it would be Julius Caesar

@KiwiBird yes that is right.
Caesar was actually in charge of the Calander. The Roman Calander was traditionally 360 days. It was his job to add days manually into the Calander each year. During the 7 year republic war, caesar did not adjust the Calander so it drifted out.
When he became Emperor, he recruited a Greek Astronomer and created the Calander as we know it.
He then added an additional 40 days to the year 46 BC to correct the difference.

@SW-User okay did you Google it or did you know it.
Yes you are correct

@Hanging2 I remembered that it was when they switched calendars but had to look up the actual year

@SW-User Actually the First leap year was 44 BC.

@Hanging2 I said in the 70s UTC was introduced so as well as a leap year there were I think 2 seconds added too to correctly realign UTC with the astronomical clock.


I should have thought about other calendar realignments but in the 19th century the realignments generally took days away didn't add them