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"There is lots of opportunity for confusion when it comes to times and dates," said Tamrat Giorgis, editor of the country's largest English-language business newspaper, Fortune.
"One person can say let's meet at 4 o'clock and the other can mean 10 o'clock and you get lost in between.There are companies which close their books according to the Gregorian calendar and there are some companies which do everything by the local calendar," he added.
The dating system has its roots in the ancient Ethiopian Orthodox Church which, like Orthodox churches throughout the world, did not follow Pope Gregory XIII's decision to abandon the Julian calendar for the Gregorian one in 1582.
"But there is no serious debate about changing it.There would be a storm if anyone tried to change the Ethiopian calendar.In Ethiopian society, people are very proud of their heritage," Tamrat said.
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