How Does The Gregorian Calendar | JRE & Neil deGrasse Tyson Work?

The Gregorian calendar is like a super-smart clock that helps us count days, months, and years in a way that matches how Earth moves around the Sun.

Imagine you have a toy train that goes all around a track. Every time it completes one full loop, that's like a year. But if your train sometimes goes a little faster or slower than it should, just like Earth can be a tiny bit off, then after a while, the days and seasons might not line up correctly anymore.

JRE (that’s Jason Reynolds and Neil deGrasse Tyson) is like two super-smart friends who figured out how to fix that toy train. They looked at old calendars from long ago and saw that they had a little mistake, they counted years in a way that made the seasons shift over time.

So, Neil deGrasse Tyson, who’s an expert on space stuff, worked with others to create the Gregorian calendar. It added some extra days every few years, like a special rule for leap years, so that our calendar keeps matching Earth's path around the Sun.

It’s like giving your toy train a little nudge now and then, so it doesn’t get too far off track, keeping everything in sync with how the world really works.