It's the year 2012. We started a new century and a new millennium not long ago. We can't even imagine what the next thousand years will bring, but if the last twelve years are any guide, the rest of the third millennium will hold changes and hopefully wonders!!
We often depend on the calendar to plan our daily routines. We also use it to plan our future: work, meetings, appointments, holidays, birthdays and all of the other events in life. Most of us write them in our diaries so that we won't forget.
Here’s a video of a short history of the modern calendar that explains in a graphic way the origins of our system of organizing our schedule in days, weeks, months and years.
