If you want to go back to 2016, you probably don’t know that there is a very simple way you can use it. But we need to point out that following this path will not give you exactly the result you expect. Although traveling to Ethiopia won’t really take you back in time, it’s interesting that the country is currently in 2016.
The Gregorian calendar, the calendar used by much of the world today, was not always the standard calendar. You can read the story of the adoption process of this calendar and how countries lost between 10 and 13 days in the process in our news here.
Although most countries in the world now use the Gregorian calendar, there are a few countries that use other ways of dividing the year into measurable periods. For example, a 13-month calendar is used in Ethiopia. These months are called Meskerem, Tikimt, Hidar, Tahsas, Tir, Yakatit, Maggabit, Myazya, Ginbot, Sene, Hamle, Nehasa and Pagume. Instead of a mixed lunar system of 30-day, 31-day, and 28- or 29-day months, depending on the year, the Ethiopian calendar has 12 months of 30 days each, followed by a final month of five or six days, depending on whether it is a leap year or not. .
To further confuse visitors, the hours of the day do not follow the same system, with days divided into two 12-hour halves that begin at 6:00 a.m. instead of midnight.
The answer to why Ethiopia is experiencing 2016 dates back to 500 AD
Like the Gregorian calendar, the Ethiopian calendar is based on the birth of Jesus. The Catholic Church changed its calculations of when Jesus was born in 500 AD, but the Ethiopian church did not, and in addition to all the differences, this places the Ethiopian new year on September 11 on the Gregorian calendar. Ethiopia, the only country in Africa that has never been colonized, is still alive in 2016 because it continues to use old calculations.
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