A closer look
Roman dictator Julius Caesar forced the year 46 BC to last an excruciating 445 days to align the heavily screwed-up Roman calendar with the solar year, creating what is known as the "Year of Confusion." The previous lunar calendar was so out of sync with the actual seasons that the harvest festivals were happening in the completely wrong months, mostly because corrupt politicians kept adding random days to keep themselves in power longer. To fix this massive bureaucratic nightmare, Caesar just kept shoving extra leap months into the schedule until the math finally worked out for his shiny new Julian calendar. Imagine enduring a 445-day year without modern distractions; 2020 felt like an eternity, but ancient Romans literally had to live through a year that refused to end just because their leader sucked at time management. Sometimes history is just one guy forcing everyone to adapt to his math homework
