Remember the whole Rapture thing?
I just realized, wotsisface obviously worked in the Gregorian calendar,
and clearly that is all wrong!
See, back then they used the Julian calendar and the two calendars drift relative to each other, causing an offset between dates.
So, right now, to convert, just add 13 days, and voila, you're done!
Lets see, 21st May, plus 13, carry the 3, and...
uh-oh.
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Hmm, that's definitely interesting, but it seems too early to me... Ok, I've updated my calculations, and it looks like Nyan Cat is still about 1.561 light years away from Earth. He's coming tho, he's coming...
There are other systematic errors as well. One that I still don't know how to account for is the day the Sun stood still (Joshua 10:12) . Does that count as one day? Or two days?
There's also the fact that he ignored half of 2 Peter 3:8.