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Hooray! End of Days theory gets second chance!

Most of the world started using the Gregorian calendar back in 1582, that's the calendar we know today.

However, before this people used different calendars to keep a track of dates including the Mayan and Julian calendars.

Over time these lost days add up and now there's a conspiracy theory claiming that we should actually be in the year 2012, not 2020.

In a since deleted tweet, scientist Paolo Tagaloguin reportedly said: “Following the Julian Calendar, we are technically in 2012.

“The number of days lost in a year due to the shift into Gregorian Calendar is 11 days.

"For 268 years using the Gregorian Calendar (1752-2020) times 11 days = 2,948 days. 2,948 days / 365 days (per year) = 8 years”.

Following this theory, June 21, 2020 would actually be December 21, 2012, a date you may recognise.

Back in 2012, the date December 21 was proposed by some as the end of the world by conspiracy theorists who were using the Mayan calendar to try and make sense of an ancient prediction.

The Gregorian calendar was introduced to try and better reflect the time it takes Earth to orbit the Sun.

However, 11 days of time were said to be lost from the year that was once determined by the Julian calendar.