How did the international world go about establishing a common format of date and time? I know other cultures still have their original calendars that run concurrent to the Gregorian, but for all intents and purposes, every country recognizes that right now it is Tuesday, April 2nd, 2024 (9:32 am my local time). When and how did this come about?
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The calendar was regulated by the the Roman Catholic Church in the Middle Ages which made it the standard in Western Christendom. Then countries in Western Europe colonized the rest of the world and through force and influence, the rest of the world adopted their calendar. It’s been pretty recent in some cases. For example, the October Revolution in Russia happened in November on the Gregorian calendar because Russia was still using the Julian calendar until the Revolution
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