On 2025-08-06 02:30, Bruno Haible wrote:
This sounds silly, but is in fact intended: This Nepal Calendar Determination Committee wants to get *paid* for the accurate calendar data. [2]
This reminds me of why Julius Caesar introduced the Julian Calendar. Pontifices who were in charge of the lunisolar calendar of old Rome were too often politicians who manipulated the calendar to extend their friends' terms of office, or to shorten their opponents'.
