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- From: mathew <mathew@mantis.co.uk>
- Newsgroups: uk.misc
- Subject: Re: Was: Re: 29 Feb 2000?, Now: 2000/2001
- Message-ID: <9gTHuB16w165w@mantis.co.uk>
- Date: Thu, 19 Nov 92 15:42:19 GMT
- References: <722101150snx@klaatu.demon.co.uk>
- Distribution: uk
- Organization: Mantis Consultants, Cambridge. UK.
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- steve@klaatu.demon.co.uk (Steve Loft) writes:
- > But his birthday was apparently Dec 25th; So was AD 1 just a week? And
- > 1 BC was 51 weeks? Or was AD 1 the whole of the year in which he was
- > born? Or did AD 1 not start until Jan 1st following his birth? I suppose
- > it took them a week or so to get the calendar sorted out - 'Hey, the son
- > of god's just been born; we'd better think about reorganising the calendar'.
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- The idea of having a calendar was invented by the Mayan civilization;
- however, they soon gave up the idea because of the difficulty of fixing the
- correct date for Christmas, Easter and so on.
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- mathew
- [ This one's definitely false ]
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