Today’s Wordle #556 Hints, Clues And Answer For Tuesday, December 27th

Today is the last Tuesday of 2022. Tomorrow will be the last Wednesday. There will never be another Sunday or Monday of 2022. As the week progresses, the final days of the year will fall off. Soon, we will all need to remember to write ‘2023’ on everything. This keeps happening but it always feels a little strange.

The year is, in some ways, an abstraction. Once upon a time there were 10 months in a year. Then Julius Caesar and Augustus Caesar came along and each got their very own months wedged between the rest. The Julian calendar was in place for nearly 2,000 years (and still is in some cultures). Julius Caesar first ordered that the calendar that bears his name be adopted way back in 45 B.C. The new calendar consisted of three years with 365 days followed by one with 366 days—a leap year. But this formula was not quite right.