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As the rest of us gear up to welcome 2022, you might be interested to learn that the people of Ethiopia – well, many of them anyway – won’t be celebrating tonight, and are still living in 2014.

Of course, the concept of time is fairly difficult to change, so they’ll be existing in the same time as us regardless, but their calendar is different to that which most of the rest of the world has adopted, and it means that they’re a few years behind everyone else on paper.