People went to bed on October 4 and woke up on October 15. How?
In 1582, countries including Spain and Portugal skipped ten calendar dates when adopting the Gregorian calendar. The change corrected centuries of drift under the Julian calendar.
No time disappeared—only the dates changed. Other countries adopted the reform later.
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