Back to the future… If you kept a calendar from 1996, you can use it in 2024. Why? Because the year 2024 and the year 1996 are both leap years, that is to say they have 366 days, and they each start on a Monday, according to the specialized site Time and Date.
And the similarities don’t stop there: 1996 and 2024 are both years with Olympic Games (1996 in Atlanta and 2024 in Paris) and presidential election years in the United States. The 1996 calendars, reusable this year, are all the rage on the Internet, with some selling for more than a hundred dollars.
References to the 90s
On social networks, Internet users published photos of retro calendars and multiplied jokes and references to the 1990s. The film MatildaTom Cruise in the first Impossible mission… Some Internet users have searched in their cellar to find nuggets from 1996.
A publication, viewed more than two million times on X (formerly Twitter), for example highlights a calendar with actor Jonathan Taylor Thomas, who played in the series when he was a teenager Dad tinkeringvery popular in the United States in the 90s. “For your information if you have this calendar from 1996 with Jonathan Taylor Thomas, the dates correspond to those of 2024, so you can reuse it,” warns the SpaceMonkeyX account.
An Internet user dug up a calendar from the video rental company, Blockbuster, which lists the hit films from 1995 soon to be available on VHS in 1996 like Pocahontas, Batman Forever or Casper.
On Ebay, calendars from 1996 sell for prices ranging from around twenty to a hundred dollars. The one with actress Pamela Anderson, starring in Dad tinkering but above allBaywatch, thus costs at least 150 dollars on the sales site. And we will have to wait until 2052 to use them again, just like those of 2024.